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Re:After 100K Covid-19 cases, it’s clearer where Californian... by redis_mlc on Sunday May 31, 2020 @12:53AM (#23367289)
> Hindsight 20/20 as they say

Sorry, but that excuse won't fly for several reasons:

1) We had sars-1 and mers earlier, both corona viruses

2) China was slow in providing info initially, but eventually they did. There's a number of papers to read online. (Same as in sars-1, where world notification was delayed from Nov. 2002 to about Mar. 2003.)

3) The CDC and other agencies are supposed to be on top of pandemics. The White House has a pandemic playbook. These are paid professionals who are supposed to have foresight, not blame hindsight.

(FYI: one of the US disease pros involved said that false alerts essentially neutered pandemic response since 2010 in this country. I empathize with that. All I can suggest is to point out that sars-1 killed thousands, and mers and sars-2 are also coronas.)

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Re:After 100K Covid-19 cases, it’s clearer where Californian... by hcknwscommenter on Sunday May 31, 2020 @02:25AM (#23367665)
"The White House has a pandemic playbook."

The white house HAD a pandemic playbook. They didn't use it.

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