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It was in Europe as early as December 27: https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-timeline-is-upended...

It doesn't even matter where the virus comes from. Why was South Korea able to handle it better than the US?

One reason is South Korea had to deal with SARS previously and were better prepared.

This one is easy, all neighbors of China have had multiple dangers of epidemics before.

This is just the first one that spread globally.

That article says the disease arrived in Europe in December, but the earliest case occurred in China in November.

The origin of the virus can help immensely- for tracking, vaccination formulation, etc.

We have handled it atrociously here in the US, and the reasons were myriad. But it's disingenuous to compare nations, we all operate differently.

Then prove it.

Yes, the virus was first detected by China, in the Wuhan province, in December, because they had a health surveillance system in place to report strange pneumonia cases.

But new evidence are being revealed that the virus may have originated elsewhere.

France confirmed they had the virus in November, but didn’t know about it, and brushed it off as the flu.

The United States, had strange pneumonia deaths in mid to late 2019, but no one investigated it.

It appears your first mode, is to attack anyone that doesn’t agree with your narrative or view of the world.

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Edit: Responding to Nico below.

Agreed. Find the trail.

The interesting thing is, why didn’t this virus also show up in Africa, in large amounts?

There must be a lot of business people that travel between China and Africa. So if it originated in China, then I would think that Africa would have been hit early on, as well. But that didn’t happen.

DNA mutations seem to support the narrative.

Path to the US:

> Wuhan + China - Europe - US

Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pande...

The first estimate of the virus is 6 October 2019 – 11 December 2019 ( Wuhan ). Saying that it was earlier in Europe / US is speculation and not based on facts.

It just doesn't matter in Africa. People are dying of disease every day. They have river blindness, tuberculosis, HIV, cholera, west nile virus, parasitic worms of every type, malaria... oh, and also the Wuhan lab virus, which usually doesn't even kill people.

There is no reason to test for the virus. There is no reason to care at all. It's a rounding error in the disease statistics.

At the battle of Gettysburg, or at the Las Vegas massacre, blisters and skinned knees weren't a concern. It's not that they didn't happen, but they were such a low priority that the doctors weren't going to care.

Sure, there is plenty of travel between China and Africa, but maybe the proportion of the population that travels internationally is much smaller than in Europe or the US?

We're seeing how Brazil lagged, but is now rapidly increasing the number of cases; couldn't it just be that on average people travel less, are less urbanized, and so it took longer to get the epidemic going?