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much of what people remember was actually referring to the Muslim ban that happened at the same time. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/13120-2 https://www.spea

much of what people remember was actually referring to the Muslim ban that happened at the same time. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/13120-2 https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/13120-2 And you are correct, people from both parties played down the virus well into March. Mardi Gras wasn’t canceled at the end of February. These people simply didn’t know how dangerous the Coronavirus was.

WalterBright 6y ago
> These people simply didn’t know how dangerous the Coronavirus was. I'd be forgiving on that as we've had several pandemic scares before that panned out to nothing in the US.
- melling 6y ago
  Many public officials did not know the seriousness of the Coronavirus. Even Republican officials told Americans to go out and dine. =============== March 15, 2020 “Representative Devin Nunes, a California Republican, on Sunday encouraged healthy people to dine out at restaurants, contradicting public health advisories that strongly encouraged social distancing and discouraged Americans from attending mass gatherings.“
  - ghaff 6y ago
    By March 7-15, cautious companies etc. were widely shutting things down. A month earlier basically nothing was happening anywhere in the West.
bourgwaletariat 6y ago
What I remember of it was calling it the "china flu" was racist/xenophobic. Now, however, it's fine to call it the Brazilian Strain or the UK Strain or the South African Strain. None of any of this makes logical sense to me, tbh, beyond tribalism. That link you posted is an example of the rewriting of history, because those policies were "forged under Obama" which the blaming of Trump for them, conveniently neglects to mention. Same for the cages, war mongering, and divisiveness in our society today. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/anti-muslim-policies-forged-under-obama-flourished-under-trump-what-n1250966 https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/anti-muslim-policies-forged-un...

WalterBright 6y ago

> These people simply didn’t know how dangerous the Coronavirus was. I'd be forgiving on that as we've had several pandemic scares before that panned out to nothing in the US.

melling 6y ago
Many public officials did not know the seriousness of the Coronavirus. Even Republican officials told Americans to go out and dine. =============== March 15, 2020 “Representative Devin Nunes, a California Republican, on Sunday encouraged healthy people to dine out at restaurants, contradicting public health advisories that strongly encouraged social distancing and discouraged Americans from attending mass gatherings.“
- ghaff 6y ago
  By March 7-15, cautious companies etc. were widely shutting things down. A month earlier basically nothing was happening anywhere in the West.

bourgwaletariat 6y ago

What I remember of it was calling it the "china flu" was racist/xenophobic. Now, however, it's fine to call it the Brazilian Strain or the UK Strain or the South African Strain. None of any of this makes logical sense to me, tbh, beyond tribalism. That link you posted is an example of the rewriting of history, because those policies were "forged under Obama" which the blaming of Trump for them, conveniently neglects to mention. Same for the cages, war mongering, and divisiveness in our society today. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/anti-muslim-policies-forged-under-obama-flourished-under-trump-what-n1250966 https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/anti-muslim-policies-forged-un...