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Not "Everyone" was getting sick. An extremely small portion of the population getting sick can have a large impact, since most people are not sick, most of the

• roywiggins 3y ago
  Depends where you were, and when. Probably almost everyone got sick in China after they dropped their zero-covid measures, in the space of a month or so. If you're sick for maybe 1-3 weeks, that's easily 1/3rd of the population sick simultaneously. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/15/world/asia/china-covid-death-estimates.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/15/world/asia/ch... > Based on that data, they inferred that 90 percent of the population was infected in little more than a month. > While the figure is high, epidemiologists who were not involved with the project said such a rate was plausible. And in January, a leading government epidemiologist said on Weibo, a Chinese social media platform, that 80 percent of the population had been infected. Some European companies’ operations in China saw infection rates of 90 percent among their employees in December, Joerg Wuttke, the president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, told The Times in an interview.
  • xyzzy123 3y ago
    Yes, I mean they had the option of pausing air traffic from Wuhan. Why wouldn't you? Well of course it's not from China in any case.
• FrustratedMonky 3y ago
  Quarantine only works if it is put in place fast enough. At the time, other countries were showing 10% mortality. If that gets into circulation, there is no stopping it. So quarantine fast, to stop it. Not, wait and see, 'hmmm, some people seem to just get a cough, lets let this baby roll and see what happens'.