| | | While we have been like a chicken with it's head cut off in our response, esp the first many weeks, my brother's ladyfriend who just moved to near us from Taiwan said that as a nation, they've faced several recent drills of emerging threats from China, and when this first appeared, they were all over it. The US doesn't have that experience, and still seems intent and not gaining any experience, either. The medical profession is at least.
Also, I had been of the camp that China was faking a lot of data. However, my opinion changed when I heard from my step daughters step mom, who is from China and has a home there 8 hours from Wuhan. She said that when the outbreak first became known, her town mayor shut off access from the outside.
That sort of quick action, plus what I read yesterday from some Australian about what they are doing now, constant temperature checks, mandatory phone tracking, mandatory divulging everybody you've had contact with and their phone numbers... nothing short of a police state really. They got results, but at what ultimate price?
On a more promising front: marketwatch.com |
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