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Originally Posted by blueash
(Post 1751154)
Who is "us"? A few conspiracy pushers think "the act" was deliberate. I am unaware of any other people thinking it was. This whole blame China reeks of deflection. What has happened here is on us, our government, our planning, ourselves. We knew it was coming, we knew how bad it might be [not it would be, but it might be] and our leadership local to national downplayed it, said we'd be fine, it was only one case here or there and it would all go away before it spread.
China did not know what was coming, did not know how bad it could be, and shut down Wuhan 13 days after the first recognized death, more quickly than we shut down our epicenters. Shame on us, both parties.
On Mar 1 NYC had its first positive patient. The mayor said go about your business. On Mar 15 NYC schools were closed by the governor and ordered bars and restaurants would close on Mar 17. That is 16 days after the first confirmed case and by that time metro NYC had hundreds of cases. NYC has never been shut down, unlike Wuhan where shelter in place was ordered. Now tell me again how China was too slow and is entirely to blame for all the COVID problems here. Wuhan is a bigger city than NY.
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You are spectacularly misinformed.
December 6: According to a study in The Lancet, the symptom onset date of the first patient identified was “Dec 1, 2019 . . . 5 days after illness onset, his wife, a 53-year-old woman who had no known history of exposure to the market, also presented with pneumonia and was hospitalized in the isolation ward.” In other words, as early as the second week of December, Wuhan doctors were finding cases that indicated the virus was spreading from one human to another.
December 21: Wuhan doctors begin to notice a “cluster of pneumonia cases with an unknown cause.”
December 25: Chinese medical staff in two hospitals in Wuhan are suspected of contracting viral pneumonia and are quarantined. This is additional strong evidence of human-to-human transmission.
Sometime in “Late December”: Wuhan hospitals notice “an exponential increase” in the number of cases that cannot be linked back to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, according to the New England Journal of Medicine
December 30: Dr. Li Wenliang sent a message to a group of other doctors warning them about a possible outbreak of an illness that resembled severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), urging them to take protective measures against infection.
December 31: The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission declares, “The investigation so far has not found any obvious human-to-human transmission and no medical staff infection.” This is the opposite of the belief of the doctors working on patients in Wuhan, and two doctors were already suspected of contracting the virus.
January 3: The Chinese government continued efforts to suppress all information about the virus: “China’s National Health Commission, the nation’s top health authority, ordered institutions not to publish any information related to the unknown disease, and ordered labs to transfer any samples they had to designated testing institutions, or to destroy them."
January 5: The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission put out a statement with updated numbers of cases but repeated, “preliminary investigations have shown no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission and no medical staff infections.”
January 14: Wuhan city health authorities release another statement declaring, “Among the close contacts, no related cases were found.” Wuhan doctors have known this was false since early December, from the first victim and his wife, who did not visit the market.
The World Health Organization echoes China’s assessment: “Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in Wuhan, China.”
This is five or six weeks after the first evidence of human-to-human transmission in Wuhan.
January 21 Chinese officials finally acknowledge human to human transmission of the virus.
