China has won this corona economics sanction battle!

China is restarting her economy first because they both started first and isolated people for 4 months. While its true that they are also in a recession, do not underestimate their own market. This is the largest population on earth.

The next best comparison is India, who knows when will it end there. Yet, it is the USA that has gone out of control, no other country let the virus spread so much and kill so many people than the United States. Well Europe as a whole is close.

The resident denier keeps saying "its only a flu", just like Trump and Bolsonaro, and look where those countries are now in the statistics. Of course "everything is a lie", people would have died the same without the virus, according to deniers, over half million people in 4 months died from other causes, and "just happened" to had covid-19... Half million from 2 million infected, just think about it, its a quarter of the population.

These deniers were here in Jan and Feb telling everyone it was all fake, i was warning you to buy supplies and get ready to spend months at home. Yet some people didn't listen, and were later scrambling for toilet paper in March, and now are desperate to go out and buy more...

The virus doesn't care if you have paper or if you are bored from the isolation, its out there waiting for you to come out. Its too late now.

Disciplined China kept people home for long enough to mitigate and isolate the virus enough so that they could restart activities internally. The rest of the world, have not for the most part, and by ignoring it are only making things much worse and will have to spend even more time isolated; what could have been a 4 months thing like in China, is becoming 6, 8, 12 or even more months in countries led by deniers.

You can order people to go out to work all you want from the safety of your mansion or skyscraper, but it would do you no good when millions of sick people that have "only a flu" cannot get out or bed and 1 out of 4 die grasping for air. Yes its true, another 1 in 4 don't feel a thing, maybe its only those you want? Darwinism at work i bet. The other 2 in 4 who don't die have to suffer in bed for over two weeks. So more than half the population cannot go out to work if you let them all get infected.

And no, all the ventilators of the world aren't going to help, you have to keep humans isolated from themselves to stop the thing in the first place. At least until a cure/vaccine is found, tested and approved by bureaucracy.