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Re:U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come by jawarner on Thursday December 03, 2020 @11:45AM (#25290860)
The initial U.S. response to the virus was to do nothing. It will go away soon. We can blame it on China for not communicating it sooner, but what would we have done? Things would be better if we had done nothing, sooner?
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Re:U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come by pnw_hazor on Thursday December 03, 2020 @11:57AM (#25291058)
Doing nothing? There was a rapid mobilization of emergency military hospitals (that were not used at all), ventilator development, vaccine development, therapeutic development, lockdowns, travel restrictions, and so on. And, here we are with multiple vaccines being deployed in record time.

Also, China could have locked down travel from China that might have helped.

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Re:U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come by porpoise on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:42PM (#25295532)
> China could have locked down travel from China that might have helped.

See [1] and [2] for fact checks on this point.

[1] https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/trumps-flawed-china-travel...

[2] https://danielabell.com/?s=Ferguson&submit=Search

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