This was posted on facebook by a Brit living in Wuhan, an interesting point of view, and gives us some insight into the potential lock down time amongst other things:
"A friend of a friends post, from China, where she and her new born baby and his dad, are living under quarantine restrictions. Interesting and informative.
'Just for the record, the whole province has been quarantined for nearly two months, at this point. I'll definitely write more explicitly about it later, but I will say two things right now:
1) when you've got a government who offers free testing, free treatment, free food for people under observation, busts it's ass to build hospitals and ensure that there are enough dedicated resources for treatment, AND which underwrites people's incomes so that no one suffers too much from being unable to work, or from being made to work at a distance, quarantines are actually pretty awesome. Time to work. Time to spend with your family. Time to read as much as you fucking want. Time to write a book. The quarantine has been relatively loose anyway. One family member per household is allowed to leave every other day to get supplies, but stores are opening again and deliveries are finally arriving. I'm on a slightly tighter quarantine than everyone else, because I just gave birth. I'm technically classified as a 'national treasure', which I've got mixed feelings about, honestly. My Province just discharged it's last Covid-19 patient so things will probably go back to normal pretty soon, after a two-week buffer, but if it hadn't I'd be on a tight leash (with new baby') until about three months postpartum. I've seriously never been so impressed with China as I am right now — and that's saying something. China has done everything right, and the West could really stand to learn a thing or two from them.
2) I'm contrasting all of the above with the mess that's unfolding in America and, to a lesser extent, the UK. I can see both countries suffering disproportionately due to bad planning and a lack of resources. This is especially true of the US. My other home country has an NHS that has been suffering under Tory cuts for the last decade, so they'll have more deaths than they should, but there are still some structures intact. The US is basically doing everything wrong, right now. I can see deaths increasing dramatically, as well as unprecedented levels of absolutely insane medical debt. So. Basically. I'm glad to be in China right now. I can buy as much toilet paper as I want to, for one thing. I can have it delivered. '"