A thread here for those who don't understand why the China protests over the weekend protests are so shockingly rare.

Surveillance. In. China. Is. Extreme. Think you could evade Chinese police? Let's walk through it: "There's tons of people protesting, they'll never catch me," nope - Chinese police stations use huge networks of facial recognition cameras that can retroactively trace people for days or even months.

There's actually a very good analogy in here. I know no one wants unsolicited comparisons between China and the U.S. right now, but hear me out. I've covered censorship in China for the better part of the last decade. >>thread

https://twitter.com/mgerrydoyle/status/1348864002420404224

Chinese censorship happens within companies - at the behest of the government, for sure, but day-to-day censorship occurs in an opaque black hole within Chinese companies. It often leads to over-censorship. I've written about it>> reuters.com/article/us-chi…

小 thread: Yesterday, a police bureau in Inner Mongolia released over 90 hi-def wanted photos of people gathering to protest : archive.is/cUlbM
“solemnly urge the following personnel to surrender.” Protests in China (which administers Inner Mongolia) are rare because surveillance is total, the crackdown is swift, and participation can be life-altering. These wanted pics linked by rights group SMHRIC to this protest:

https://twitter.com/catecadell/status/1301060701864116224

There are over 470,000 cases of #COVID2019 and more than 21,000 deaths

To me, ~15K cases reported by the U.S. in the 24hrs is not the biggest news - it's the fact that 90+ countries & territories are poised for similar outbreaks in the coming week/s. There are now 200+ countries and territories reporting infections, and 90 of them have reported 100+ cases, mostly over the past week. So many of these places have ill-equipped healthcare systems. Ecuador, Chile, Brazil, Malaysia & others with 1000+ cases.

I'm back looking at #coronavirus numbers today and a few things really stick out New cases globally down 15.5%, new deaths down 27% - and deaths outside Hubei dwindling to nothing.

But - countries outside China now accounting for a growing number of new deaths (17.5%) and cases (39.3%)

What's the fatality rate of #coronavirus ?

Inside Wuhan: 1 in 23 cases
Outside Wuhan, but inside Hubei: 1 in 71
Outside Hubei but inside China: 1 in 640
Outside the China mainland: 1 in 113

None reflect an accurate fatality rate - but they do reflect the known data. Wuhan dropped to a third of total cases as of yesterday, but still has a whopping 73% of total deaths. I asked experts why.

This story is the result of many late-night calls with despairing people in Wuhan over the past week. @ywchen1 and I spoke to well over a dozen patients, experts, govt & hospital sources to pull together this story on the early days of #WuhanCoronavirus. reuters.com/article/us-chi… It focuses on a crucial gap early in the outbreak when no new cases were tested or reported in China, even as countries abroad began confirming cases. Wuhan hospitals didn’t have testing kits until the 16th. Many early patients weren’t tested until the 20th or later.

After 22 (mostly western) countries called on China to halt the mass detention of Uighurs in Xinjiang at the U.N. Human Rights Council, China rounded up 37 countries to sign a counter letter, supporting the camps - so how do China's 37 human rights crusaders stack up? Here's where China's 37 human rights 'supporters' fall on Freedom House's annual free country ranking (hint - bottom of the list is bad) freedomhouse.org/report/freedom…