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• salmon30salmon 6y ago
  Yep. It sucks. Death sucks. The lie we tell ourselves is that these are preventable deaths. The only thing that would have prevented this would have been for China to detect it ASAP and eliminate the spread. Once it hit uncontrolled community spread we were fucked. We can minimize it somewhat, but lots of people are going to die. If we locked down completely, lots of people would die of a litany of other things that would have normally been prevented in an open society. Fucked either way. See my point?
• addicted 6y ago
  It didn’t hit “uncontrolled community spread” in the US until at least 3 months after the first US case and until at least a month after it devastated Italy. For the US to still cry about China is embarrassing.
  • salmon30salmon 6y ago
    I think you meant to reply to me. I am not crying about China. It is the truth. The only way to prevent uncontrolled spread would have been to stop it before it became uncontrolled. The fact that the first cases were in Cali. in December shows how impossible that really is for a non-island nation (caveat only because NZ) The main point I was making is that it isn't possible! By the time China had enough data to detect a novel virus, it was too late. It would have always been too late. China isn't to blame. This could just have easily of jumped species in Canada or the US. The point is that we can't be gods no matter how much we tell ourselves we are just that.
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