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Why should anyone in 195-1 countries care about either of those?

• beamatronic 7y ago
  Because if anyone took this seriously (shelter in place worldwide 1 month ago) we would not be in this situation.
  • recursive 7y ago
    > Because if anyone took this seriously You mean if everyone took this seriously. Which is obviously a lot more difficult. It would probably not be possible to get everyone to agree that the sky is blue or 2+2=4.
    • jacquesm 7y ago
      There was a point in time where a single city could have made that difference. Then there was a point in time where single province could have made that difference. Then a country. Now none of this matters anymore but it is still an interesting question: was the virus known and detected at a point in time where it could have been contained? From the long incubation time my gut feeling is that it probably couldn't have been. International airtravel speeds things up, it also didn't make a difference in 1918 when intercontinental traffic was by boat. Lindbergh didn't make his flight until 1927.