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Re:There have been 7M-13M excess deaths worldwide during the... by briandear on Sunday May 16, 2021 @08:23PM (#27178672)
> Given that until recently the US was quite militant in refusing to act upon the outbreak

Factually untrue. The US was the first country to shut down China travel. And we got called Xenophobic for it. The mayor of Florence even held a “hug a Chinese” day in response.

https://rmx.news/article/article/fears-of-being-called-racis...

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Re:There have been 7M-13M excess deaths worldwide during the... by maxerickson on Sunday May 16, 2021 @08:54PM (#27178863)
The US never shut down travel from China, it banned people not from the US from traveling from China to the US. US citizens and some other groups were still allowed to travel.

Singapore started severely restrict travel and quarantining arriving citizens a couple days before the US ban.

https://www.gov.sg/article/how-is-singapore-limiting-the-spr...

A faster travel ban for Italy and other EU countries would have done the US more good.

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Re:There have been 7M-13M excess deaths worldwide during the... by URSpider94 on Monday May 17, 2021 @01:16AM (#27180275)
Factually true. Shutting down travel from China (at least for Chinese nationals, but not for Americans) after the virus was already openly spreading inside the country, and NOT shutting down travel from Europe, which was having a massive outbreak of its own, was xenophobic theater at best.
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