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Better response would have been to not cover up the existence of a Coronavirus for months.
by throwaway1997 6y ago
Better response would have been to not cover up the existence of a Coronavirus for months.
- henriquez 6y agoOr not allow outgoing international flights from Wuhan while restricting in-China travel from Wuhan.
- yread 6y agoWhich country restricts their own citizens from travelling in a quarantine? It's always the foreigners who are not allowed to come in.
- henriquez 6y ago> Which country restricts their own citizens from travelling in a quarantine? China. They were literally locking Wuhan residents in their apartments, blocking off all roadways out of the city with military, but allowing Wuhan elites to jet-set all over the world (but not anywhere within China) _during the lockdown._
- lostmsu 6y agoWould u.s. lock their citizens in? I bet no (and it is bad)
- ehnto 6y agoFrom the outside looking over, I would say the US did the same. I am not from either country, but I can tell you that most of our cases came from American travelers, at the same time your president was saying there were few to no cases. That was months after the US got it's first recorded case. We got one case from Wuhan, and we got 29 from the US. I know it was not the general US opinion, and I was personally well aware of the state of things in the US from the word of other US citizens. But maybe it's good to know how the US projects out to other countries through it's ambassadors.
- thejynxed 6y agoThe first U.S. cases were found to have come here via Europe, but we ended up with plenty of cross pollination directly from China via travelers and contaminated goods (the first cases in North Carolina for instance involved people who had packages of things from China they purchased on Amazon, these people had no contact with travelers).
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- adrianmonk 6y agoIt's just simply not true that China covered up the existence of the virus for months. On December 16, 2019, the first patient was admitted to a hospital. This is more or less China's first reasonable opportunity to understand that there was a new disease. On December 31, 2019, there was an article about it in the South China Morning Post: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3044050/mystery-illness-hits-chinas-wuhan-city-nearly-30-hospitalised https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3044050/mys... And on DW: https://www.dw.com/en/china-investigates-sars-like-virus-as-dozens-struck-by-pneumonia/a-51843861 https://www.dw.com/en/china-investigates-sars-like-virus-as-... And in Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-idUSKBN1YZ0GP https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-id... So 2 weeks from discovery to worldwide news.
- aaomidi 6y agoAnd as someone who was closely following this before the US started to take action, we dropped the ball extremely badly. Even New York was going with its just a bad flu line for a while. This is solely our fault in our mismanagement. State governments dropped the ball. Federal government dropped the ball. They all immediately scapegoatd China because we decided they're going to be the 20s enemy. The 10s were Iran and middle east. The 00s were Islamic terrorists. Maybe the 30s will be India or Brazil. Manufactured outrage is basically our MO now.
- throwaway1997 6y agoPlease see this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang The world doesn't need apologists for China and its suppression and human rights abuses.
- adrianmonk 6y agoI'm not a China apologist, and your statement is still wrong.