Suggestions that anyone knew we were facing a global pandemic in January are just dishonest. Overwhelming consensus at the time, mostly due to China's lies & WHO's failures, was that this was a potential illness to be managed, not something that required drastic shutdowns.
There will eventually need to be a review of early failures and how we can ensure we do better if faced with a similar challenge again, but focus now shd be on winning the fight & there should be a consensus that main culprit for scale of impact was China's government.
If leaders (Trump, De Blasio etc.) and press hadn't downplayed it in late Feb and CDC/FDA hadn't wasted a month re testing, we could've reduced impact, but there was no avoiding the pandemic at that point.
The main mistake was not listening to this guy:
The main mistake was not listening to this guy:
Here is an excellent timeline of China's dishonest from @jimgeraghty: nationalreview.com/the-morning-jo…
