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Even compared to China Communist Party who tried to suppress their own doctor's evidence of it and let it spread to the whole world And Italy, where 1 in 10K
by lonelappde 7y ago
Even compared to China Communist Party who tried to suppress their own doctor's evidence of it and let it spread to the whole world
And Italy, where 1 in 10K have already died?
- DiogenesKynikos 7y agoChina let it spread to the whole world? In some respects, China's initial response was poor. The government in Wuhan forced the doctor who was warning about the virus on social media to shut up, and it did not ban large public events quickly enough. In other respects, China's initial response was excellent. Immediately after the first suspicious cases of pneumonia were reported by local doctors in Wuhan, the Chinese CDC sent a team to Wuhan to investigate. China alerted the WHO just two days later. It then announced the discovery of a new coronavirus about a week after alerting the WHO. It published the genetic sequence of the virus two days after that. Two weeks later, it quarantined Wuhan, a city of over 10 million people. Two weeks may seem like a long time, but compare that to how long it's taken for governments in Western countries to take similarly drastic actions.