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If you personally weren't arguing that people should beware of a pandemic in November then for you hindsight is likely the entire time you've been discussing it

• joshstrange 7y ago
  That literally makes no sense. I never said that the minute they got that report they should have jumped into action but rather they got a constant stream of warnings starting in November or around that time. Waiting until March to really act was incorrect. The statement I opposed was that we shouldn’t blame the administration for acting slowly so I’ll rephrase: at what point do you feel like there was enough information to act on? As in, people dragging their feet after this point can be held accountable for their actions (or lack thereof).
• fao_ 7y ago
  It isn't that they needed to act in November. The virus was only taken seriously by the Chinese in December. However by mid-December no action has been taken by the US government. Only marginal action was seen in January, when it was a sure-fire knowledge that people would have gone to the US not knowing they had it. Even now, there is inadequate provisions and action by the US. It was only in March when the US gov started rolling out testing and screening, finally fully committing to it. If they had started doing what they're doing now, in January, it's likely the US would have been on the tail-end of the pandemic by now.