IMO we should be shutting down travel from coastal states.
3 months of heavy quarantine worked in Wuhan, a city that is about our coastal states populations... so that means we can stop it here.
We just need to admit we need to stop it first.
It's amazing we need to argue about whether its real first lol but whatever, western culture is what western culture does.
I personally expected america to respond the way SK did with efficiency and demonstrate our amazing for profit healthcare system etc but nope.
If we all just observed china since November, like we could have because it was wide in the open, we'd have been prepared and we wouldn't have had a stock-market crash, (or if we did it would have come 3 months before the virus came here and we could have addressed it rationally).
We basically are behaving now, like did China in November. Like Iran in December, and Italy in February. If we dont get lucky or shape up this next 2 weeks, we'll need to china again, only this time we'll be imitating china from around January, which was locking people inside their houses, building hospitals and care centers, and burning bodies.
Scary stuff.
Edit: At least we know, that in a city of 11 million if you get 75k infected you can stop the spread and contain the virus (if you consider where china is today the other side of the tunnel, which I do). So we got that much going for us, which is nice.
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