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Believing a proven notorious liar is your own fault. Look at actions, not words. China locking down Wuhan should have been enough of a warning sign. But realis
by tomp 7y ago
Believing a proven notorious liar is your own fault.
Look at actions, not words. China locking down Wuhan should have been enough of a warning sign. But realistically, even now most people & governments are complacent (few passed martial law).
- leereeves 7y ago> China locking down Wuhan should have been enough of a warning sign. It was. Within a week the world was announcing countermeasures like travel restrictions. That lockdown was on January 23, less than two months ago.
- melling 7y agoPatient Zero was already in the United States. There are 100,000 flights daily around the world. Even after the US had a travel ban with China, flights were still leaving China headed for America.
- makomk 7y agoIt wasn't. Countries like Italy and Germany believed China, and that alone would probably have been enough to doom efforts in the countries that didn't. Also, as the other reply says, patient zero was likely already in the US, so any effort at successfully containing this would have required rounding up and quarantining people from Hubei already in the USA and their close contacts back when the press were still downplaying it. (That's effectively what China did, though it was... a little ugly, shall we say.)
- throw55yu43 7y agoItaly was one of the first countries to ban flights from a China.