There are 50 MILLION people where this virus first started in China???

said that the first province in China had 50 million people in it. Did anyone else hear that??? I really couldn’t believe it.

There's a lot of people there no matter how you slice it

but I'm GLAD my nephew left China (from his studies) in JANUARY, as he/they learned of this 'monster.'

may be about that many. Geography not one of my strengths.

Wuhan, a city in the province, has about 11 million souls

What a horror they have endured!!

South Korea has about 50 mill
And their curve has been flattened
They got the first cases about same a US

We fiddled, now Rome is a conflagration.

And obediently.

I teach school. I know there's a difference between the behavior ordered and behavior observed.

Notice that high-COVID areas have two things true of them. The virus was fairly widespread before harsh(ish) measures were taking place and they're high-density areas with little social distance between stranger networks.

China certainly has the latter--high-density, tight packed networks--but they took measures before it spread too much, and they weren't "harshish" but "damned harsh." None of this "we'll keep schools open, we're not closing them" or "there won't be a lock-down" crap.

(Even that only slows the progression. Harsher measures are needed to stop it.)

In about ten days.