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Re:Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China by TeMPOraL on Thursday April 09, 2020 @12:55PM (#22824560)
Even with China lying at the beginning of the pandemic, there were then whole two months when the rest of the world watched it spread and didn't do anything to protect themselves. The severity of the pandemic is not China's fault.
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Re:Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China by remarkEon on Thursday April 09, 2020 @01:38PM (#22825111)
I'm not sure I follow.

The rest of the world was acting with the (false) information that China, and the WHO, were putting out there - including that there was "no evidence of human-to-human" transmission. So perhaps when you say it's "not China's fault", this is technically true in the sense that it's the fault of the rest of us for taking what were obvious lies at face value.

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Re:Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China by TeMPOraL on Thursday April 09, 2020 @02:50PM (#22825878)
At the end of January, it was obvious that it's a severely infectious disease. On 22th of January WHO agreed that there is evidence of human-to-human transmission[0]. By the end of January, the virus was in Italy. By mid-February, it was clear it's going to be a problem for the West. By the end of February, it was obvious to anyone with half a brain and access to a spreadsheet that this is going to be a devastating global pandemic unless swift and extreme actions are taken.

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[0] - https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/08-04-2020-who-timeline...

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Re:Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China by remarkEon on Thursday April 09, 2020 @06:17PM (#22827785)
>At the end of January, it was obvious that it's a severely infectious disease.

>By mid-February, it was clear it's going to be a problem for the West.

Which I'm sure is why it took the WHO until March 11th to declare it a Pandemic. This entire timeline reads like a corporate CYA exercise. Which tracks, since it was created yesterday.

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Re:Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China by aianus on Thursday April 09, 2020 @08:40PM (#22828770)
WHO claimed throughout that border restrictions were useless yet 80% of coronavirus cases in Canada on March 14th were directly connected to international travel. That's a whole incubation period after you say it was obviously going to be a problem.

Every time the Canadian government was asked why they weren't doing anything more, they would reply that they were following all WHO recommendations and WHO says no border closures.

Of course, it's impossible to tell what would have happened if WHO had recommended border closures but since they didn't, it's all on them.

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