Basically, to control the virus early would have required a full shutdown of China travel earlier than the partial shutdown, and a shutdown of European travel when we did the partial China one:https://www.wsj.com/graphics/when-did-covid-hit-earliest-death/?mod=hp_lead_pos5 …
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Take a look at my article. Almost every country got multiple introductions, just like the United States, and some even had bigger outbreaks than we did early on and did not have draconian shutdowns, just appropriate response to the threat, and it worked.https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/k-overlooked-variable-driving-pandemic/616548/ …
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To a first approximation, no large country outside the Pacific Rim got it right that early (counting Canada, which had significant exposure to Original SARS)
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Your reply is obviously not true because you’re taking too strong an ‘all things being equal’ position
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Many countries are not the global interconnected superpower that is America. NYC has flights going every few minutes to Europe and Asia - just one city.
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You know who has flights every few minutes to everywhere, including the source of the original outbreak? Most of Asia.
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He was told early on his own intelligence services of the threat yet denied and lied about it. Enough .
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