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Everything you said is factually incorrect. The China lockout happened after the virus was already here, champ.

sleepysysadmin 6y ago
>Everything you said is factually incorrect. The China lockout happened after the virus was already here, champ. I never said Trump's actions in February prevented the virus from entering the country. It of course would be post-virus entering the country. I also laided out that timeline literally from wikipedia. If I am wrong somewhere. Perhaps we can update wikipedia, just tell me where it's wrong.
- vl 6y ago
  It is well-though-out and illustrative comment, but since it doesn’t follow leftist narrative mob downvotes it.
  - sleepysysadmin 6y ago
    >It is well-though-out and illustrative comment, but since it doesn’t follow leftist narrative mob downvotes it. Out of interest. You are emperor of Angaria with obviously 20/20 hindsight. What date do you make the decision to lockdown. Pull a Madagascar if you know plague inc.
    - hvdfhbj 6y ago
      With 20/20 2020 hindsight I don't lock down my own country, I lock China in.
      - pjc50 6y ago
        .. how? I agree that a lot more countries should have closed down travel from infected countries a lot sooner; the UK never did this properly.
    - macintux 6y ago
      I can say authoritatively that on February 2nd I started writing goodbye notes to friends, just in case, because I had a timestamp on one of them. It was pretty obvious in late January that things were going horribly wrong.
    - TMWNN 6y ago
      >Out of interest. You are emperor of Angaria with obviously 20/20 hindsight. What date do you make the decision to lockdown. Pull a Madagascar if you know plague inc. Before January 1, ideally. Certainly before January 15, which is when Patient Zero is believed to have entered Seattle from China. Your fictional emperor has a big advantage over the nearby US, though. In January Trump had been impeached by the House and was preparing for his trial in the Senate. What would have happened if Trump had announced a hard closure of the US land, sea, and air borders on January 14? No one in except US citizens, who all have to quarantine for 14 days at military bases or requisitioned hotels? MSNBC, CNN, the Times, and the rest of the media would have switched from 100% impeachment to 100% "Trump is locking down the country so he can use the military to seize total power!!!!!". Doing this might in and of itself have caused three more Senators to vote for his conviction on February 5. It's a wonder that Trump amidst all this was able to get a China ban done. In retrospect, those behind the lies about Trump that got him impeached have much to answer for.
      - cafard 6y ago
        Lies about Trump got him impeached?
throwaway201103 6y ago
The virus was most likely worldwide before anyone knew about it, or could have prevented it. By the time the Wuhan outbreak was in the news, it was far too late.

>Everything you said is factually incorrect. The China lockout happened after the virus was already here, champ. I never said Trump's actions in February prevented the virus from entering the country. It of course would be post-virus entering the country. I also laided out that timeline literally from wikipedia. If I am wrong somewhere. Perhaps we can update wikipedia, just tell me where it's wrong.

vl 6y ago
It is well-though-out and illustrative comment, but since it doesn’t follow leftist narrative mob downvotes it.
- sleepysysadmin 6y ago
  >It is well-though-out and illustrative comment, but since it doesn’t follow leftist narrative mob downvotes it. Out of interest. You are emperor of Angaria with obviously 20/20 hindsight. What date do you make the decision to lockdown. Pull a Madagascar if you know plague inc.
  - hvdfhbj 6y ago
    With 20/20 2020 hindsight I don't lock down my own country, I lock China in.
    - pjc50 6y ago
      .. how? I agree that a lot more countries should have closed down travel from infected countries a lot sooner; the UK never did this properly.
  - macintux 6y ago
    I can say authoritatively that on February 2nd I started writing goodbye notes to friends, just in case, because I had a timestamp on one of them. It was pretty obvious in late January that things were going horribly wrong.
  - TMWNN 6y ago
    >Out of interest. You are emperor of Angaria with obviously 20/20 hindsight. What date do you make the decision to lockdown. Pull a Madagascar if you know plague inc. Before January 1, ideally. Certainly before January 15, which is when Patient Zero is believed to have entered Seattle from China. Your fictional emperor has a big advantage over the nearby US, though. In January Trump had been impeached by the House and was preparing for his trial in the Senate. What would have happened if Trump had announced a hard closure of the US land, sea, and air borders on January 14? No one in except US citizens, who all have to quarantine for 14 days at military bases or requisitioned hotels? MSNBC, CNN, the Times, and the rest of the media would have switched from 100% impeachment to 100% "Trump is locking down the country so he can use the military to seize total power!!!!!". Doing this might in and of itself have caused three more Senators to vote for his conviction on February 5. It's a wonder that Trump amidst all this was able to get a China ban done. In retrospect, those behind the lies about Trump that got him impeached have much to answer for.
    - cafard 6y ago
      Lies about Trump got him impeached?

throwaway201103 6y ago

The virus was most likely worldwide before anyone knew about it, or could have prevented it. By the time the Wuhan outbreak was in the news, it was far too late.