uziq wrote:
it can only mean that the modelling and data from places like italy are predicting thousands, if not tens of thousands, dead by the end of april.
Looking that way, best of luck. Its surreal how an infection can putter along at a low level before it explodes, but then we've had three months warning.
quarantining an entire country and cancelling all flights is a great act of economic self-harm; epidemiologically speaking in these circumstances, it hasn't done anything. italy had the strictest measures on china and yet quickly developed the biggest breakout in all of europe. so those were clearly great tactics dilderp. you should tell the public health chiefs what they're doing wrong.
this whole discussion is meaningless, anyway, as the australia–china comments were made at a very different stage. every few days the situation has changed and become more complex. complaining about the 'racist' stuff at this point is so much blah blah blah
Is this still your view? Might have been better to risk the economic self-harm and accusations of racism eh?
As soon as an epidemic was found in china unnecessary travel should have been cut right back, we still have morons floating around on cruise ships, trekking in peru and partying in bali.
Maybe people will look back at the dumb fucks eating bats and descaling pangolins in china, cultists in korea, catholics in italy and hasidim in new york, morons travelling the world for no real reason and conclude that stupidity is the root cause which has doomed us all.