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For months, almost the entire Western world just watched slackjawed while Covid spread outward from China - presumably hoping it would just go away. I wouldn't
by dTal 5y ago
For months, almost the entire Western world just watched slackjawed while Covid spread outward from China - presumably hoping it would just go away.
I wouldn't worry too much about hamstringing containment efforts.
- jacobr1 5y agoWasn't that because the virus has hit some kind of local maxima of morbidity and human-fear? If it was some kind "new ebola," I could imagine a much more aggressive response, with much less political polarization.
- ricardobayes 5y agoCan't blame them (us) too much. It was unprecedented, and all previous dangerous fledgling pandemics in the past 10 years did just stop in time somehow. H1N1, MERS, SARS, Ebola etc.