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You can possibly try to blame China for hiding things up until mid January. But absolutely after that you can’t. At that point the entire world had more than go
by erentz 7y ago
You can possibly try to blame China for hiding things up until mid January. But absolutely after that you can’t. At that point the entire world had more than good enough data to see how serious this was and that it was going to become a pandemic. Yet even still now the response in the western world is totally underwhelming for the seriousness of the situation. I’m in Seattle which is heading right towards becoming America’s Wuhan and they still aren’t even cancelling all events or closing all schools and colleges.
- TheSpiceIsLife 7y agoI wonder if the economic models of delayed action predict better economic outcomes vs cancelling all events and closing schools early? I imagine there’s likely to be commissions probing bureaucratic response, and some scapegoating.
- ourlordcaffeine 7y agoThere is a big "It won't happen to me" mentality I can see going around. In many people's minds, coronavirus is something people in Asia get, not something westerners get. Students at the university in my town are bragging about going skiing in northern Italy, saying "It's overblown" and "It won't happen to me". Even acquaintances are saying "It's just the flu, what's the big deal?".