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The WHO made a huge mistake, it was already spreading internationally, and yet somehow you found a way to shift blame to the US...

whimsicalism 4y ago
Human to human spread was confirmed before any international case was found. I traveled from China to US in January 2020 well after China had reported the virus as transmissible and the US was not doing jack shit to screen.
- makomk 4y ago
  There was literally nothing the US could've done that would've lead to Covid being comtrolled. Their efforts to stop it spreading there from China seem to have more or less worked, and were at least effective enough that they weren't the problem - the US had contact tracing that suggested it wasn't really spreading, and genetic testing also indicated this wasn't the source of the major US outbreaks. What turned this into a global pandemic was undetected, large-scale community spread in Europe, in places like Italy - all the subsequent major outbreaks seem to have come from there except maybe for South Korea's. Those coutries listened to the WHO and followed their advice. This just got obscured because the American media is a bunch of partisan trash with unfortunate global influence that saw the pandemic as a good way to replace a leader they dislike. So everything got distorted and spun based on that angle, and it did immense damage to people's understanding of the pandemic. American potlics seems to have a bit of a main protagonist problem at the best of times too.
- calibas 4y ago
  > Human to human spread was confirmed before any international case was found. Technically true, but very misleading. It was discovered that it was already in Italy before China acknowledged human-to-human transmission. Also, nothing in my first comment has anything to do with the US. I don't know why you keep shifting attention to the US, unless you think the US is responsible for the international spread?
  - whimsicalism 4y ago
    So China is the bad guy when the Italians had person to person spread in Italy and didn't even notice let alone let anybody know there was person to person spread. China actually managed to catch the disease.

whimsicalism 4y ago

Human to human spread was confirmed before any international case was found. I traveled from China to US in January 2020 well after China had reported the virus as transmissible and the US was not doing jack shit to screen.

makomk 4y ago
There was literally nothing the US could've done that would've lead to Covid being comtrolled. Their efforts to stop it spreading there from China seem to have more or less worked, and were at least effective enough that they weren't the problem - the US had contact tracing that suggested it wasn't really spreading, and genetic testing also indicated this wasn't the source of the major US outbreaks. What turned this into a global pandemic was undetected, large-scale community spread in Europe, in places like Italy - all the subsequent major outbreaks seem to have come from there except maybe for South Korea's. Those coutries listened to the WHO and followed their advice. This just got obscured because the American media is a bunch of partisan trash with unfortunate global influence that saw the pandemic as a good way to replace a leader they dislike. So everything got distorted and spun based on that angle, and it did immense damage to people's understanding of the pandemic. American potlics seems to have a bit of a main protagonist problem at the best of times too.
calibas 4y ago
> Human to human spread was confirmed before any international case was found. Technically true, but very misleading. It was discovered that it was already in Italy before China acknowledged human-to-human transmission. Also, nothing in my first comment has anything to do with the US. I don't know why you keep shifting attention to the US, unless you think the US is responsible for the international spread?
- whimsicalism 4y ago
  So China is the bad guy when the Italians had person to person spread in Italy and didn't even notice let alone let anybody know there was person to person spread. China actually managed to catch the disease.