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Can you fully blame the Chinese government? The WHO could have sounded the alarm in January and stopped global travel. Trump could have had a fearful knee jerk
by beamatronic 7y ago
Can you fully blame the Chinese government? The WHO could have sounded the alarm in January and stopped global travel. Trump could have had a fearful knee jerk reaction and done the same. Everything we are doing now should have been done mid January. State governments, county health departments, they all could have reacted louder, faster.
- eloisius 7y agoDeleted
- quaquaqua1 7y agoMeanwhile China has mostly contained this virus and the West is at the brink of despair? If the virus started in USA, it would be even worse...
- eloisius 7y agoDeleted
- beamatronic 7y agoAll that may be true. But the rest of world has no excuse for not reacting.
- mondoshawan 7y agoMostly contained based upon numbers. How much of those numbers are lies or omissions?
- deadmetheny 7y agoTrump is in a no-win situation here - if a fearful knee-jerk reaction would have successfully mitigated the disease making it into the USA, it would have been painted as xenophobic and overreaching. The WHO has just proven itself to be largely ineffective. It's a dumpster fire all around.
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- analog31 7y agoIndeed, the only "win" would have been to go on national TV and outline the ways that we had been preparing for something like this. More like an "already gambled and lost" situation.
- nabakin 7y agoI think you misunderstand. OP was saying if China had acted better, maybe COVID-19 wouldn't have spread in the first place. Maybe they could have contained it before it reached other countries or Chinese provinces. I doubt that could have happened, but it could have significantly slowed COVID-19's spread.