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This article doesn't mention the USA at all. Actually read the article. It is explaining how things happened, rather than just accusations.

• squiggleblaz 7y ago
  I guess "why" is the interesting question. This article shows that they sleepwalked into it, describing some of the events or documents that accompanied that. But it doesn't actually say why. After there were more than a dozen cases discovered at one workplace in Bavaria, a consequence of one apparently healthy woman travelling from China to a training session, it is incredible that they didn't say "this is a highly contagious disease and given its consequences in China, we must be prepared" instead they said "we're prepared". But why? What motivated the collective dropping of the ball? A commenter says of Denmark above, that they did well. But again, Denmark responded late - they locked down after Italy when coronavirus was spreading like hotcakes in Europe. It's just that they seem to have been lucky that it wasn't spreading in Denmark before they acted. In February it seems like all governments were saying "We'll be fine, nothing to worry about". Why did Europe drop the ball? Are there lockdowns in China regularly that I'm not aware of, so this was a case of the boy crying wolf? Did the WHO need to say "this is a pandemic" before anyone was prepared to take it seriously?