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I think you should read my comment more slowly and more carefully, because if I copy-pasted it right here it would be an adequate response to your response.

by epgui 4y ago

mc32 4y ago
Th premise is all governments would have the power to shut things down. They don't. We have civil liberties. It was unfeasible. Even absolute world-wide martial law would not stop it [you can't freeze people in place for ten days straight]. So the statement that it could have been stopped in 10 days if... No, that "if" was not going to happen.
- epgui 4y ago
  I think you need to draw an actual timeline of all the measures that were taken, and where and when they happened. That should help clarify.
  - mc32 4y ago
    Do you recall the very early days when there was a cruise ship where a passenger caught SARS-COV2 and they anchored it in the SF bay and didn't let anyone off even while some succumbed to the disease and treated passengers as if they had Ebola? Yet, it still jumped and infected people (landlubbers). There was no way "10 days to stop the spread" was going to be effective.
    - epgui 4y ago
      Alright that's one measure, keep going, that timeline of all measures is not going to fill itself!
      - rdtsc 4y ago
        > keep going, that timeline of all measures is not going to fill itself! That’s rude and arrogant. “Copy and paste my previous reply”, “the timeline is not going to fill itself”. mc32 is trying to present his argument and you reply with these short quips. If you’re trying to present a counter-argument, this strategy works against you, as it makes mc32 appear more reasonable and knowledgeable.
    - cameldrv 4y ago
      Those people were then transferred into a quarantine facility for two weeks where they weren’t isolated from each other, and then sent home on planes all over America without even being tested for COVID on exit from quarantine.

I think you should read my comment more slowly and more carefully, because if I copy-pasted it right here it would be an adequate response to your response.

by epgui 4y ago

I think you should read my comment more slowly and more carefully, because if I copy-pasted it right here it would be an adequate response to your response.

mc32 4y ago

Th premise is all governments would have the power to shut things down. They don't. We have civil liberties. It was unfeasible. Even absolute world-wide martial law would not stop it [you can't freeze people in place for ten days straight]. So the statement that it could have been stopped in 10 days if... No, that "if" was not going to happen.

epgui 4y ago
I think you need to draw an actual timeline of all the measures that were taken, and where and when they happened. That should help clarify.
- mc32 4y ago
  Do you recall the very early days when there was a cruise ship where a passenger caught SARS-COV2 and they anchored it in the SF bay and didn't let anyone off even while some succumbed to the disease and treated passengers as if they had Ebola? Yet, it still jumped and infected people (landlubbers). There was no way "10 days to stop the spread" was going to be effective.
  - epgui 4y ago
    Alright that's one measure, keep going, that timeline of all measures is not going to fill itself!
    - rdtsc 4y ago
      > keep going, that timeline of all measures is not going to fill itself! That’s rude and arrogant. “Copy and paste my previous reply”, “the timeline is not going to fill itself”. mc32 is trying to present his argument and you reply with these short quips. If you’re trying to present a counter-argument, this strategy works against you, as it makes mc32 appear more reasonable and knowledgeable.
  - cameldrv 4y ago
    Those people were then transferred into a quarantine facility for two weeks where they weren’t isolated from each other, and then sent home on planes all over America without even being tested for COVID on exit from quarantine.