... China was not saying anything like this on January 1st. It reported an unusual pneumonia to WHO, nothing more, and denied human-to-human transmission for weeks.
The timeline is bad enough for Trump's failure, no need to exaggerate it.
The timeline is bad enough for Trump's failure, no need to exaggerate it.
The timeline when its inexcusable that the rest of the world wasn't taking major preparatory steps is *Jan 22* when China imposed a massive quarantine - or a few days before that, when it admitted cases were growing and human-to-human transmission occurred.
In a perfect world, we would have acted on the very early warning signs at the start of January. But not acting after the seriousness became *undeniable* is the cardinal sin.
Mistakes like these repeat the error that got us here in the first place; not bothering to treat China as a serious actor with its own agency, and instead using a fantasy version of it as a stick to measure ourselves against
