Re:CDC declined to test new coronavirus patient for days, Ca...
by ajross on Thursday February 27, 2020 @11:09AM
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And we thought only China was suppressing disease counts
I see from the downvotes that everyone thinks this is just a glib cheap shot. But the point is profound: no one wants to admit to this happening. Everyone in power[1], everywhere, still thinks this is "probably not going to be a big deal". So they deliberately avoid looking for those early cases, because they're sure they're just rare outliers. And that makes the eventual outbreak inevitable.
And it's happening here too.
[1] Also a lot of people not in power, like a distressingly large cohort of posters here who seem to be taking their cues from political sources.
I see from the downvotes that everyone thinks this is just a glib cheap shot. But the point is profound: no one wants to admit to this happening. Everyone in power[1], everywhere, still thinks this is "probably not going to be a big deal". So they deliberately avoid looking for those early cases, because they're sure they're just rare outliers. And that makes the eventual outbreak inevitable.
And it's happening here too.
[1] Also a lot of people not in power, like a distressingly large cohort of posters here who seem to be taking their cues from political sources.