Narrator: "Yeah, most of them went down. But not Taiwan which started restricting/monitoring travel immediately, realized human-to-human transmission was happening, ramped up production & distributed masks and took early, decisive action while we got lectured about the flu."
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But Taiwan is an island! Yes, it is unlike the United Kingdom, which is just a sparkling landmass (as
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FWIW, that was my first tweet about the coronavirus. I had started adjusting plans for a possible crisis around January 7th, but when they shut down Wuhan, I knew it. With (more competent) authoritarians the rule is, look at what they do, not what the say.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1220060968299966464 …
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Who could have seen it coming?
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What has Australia's magic been recently? I thought they had sort of a dysfunctional conservative-y government, but they have been circling zero cases.
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(1) Excellent contact tracing (2) 2 weeks quarantine for int'l arrivals (3) Having very low arrival caps, effectively locking people, including their own citizens, out of the country unless they have $10,000 to spare on a ticket. Also locking state borders at the drop of a hat.
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Ah, the halcyon days of "This'll blow over by summer at the latest"
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“It really is one interconnected system. We desperately need governments that can manage all this, or we’re all going down.” This really should not have "aged well." But here we are.


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one year later: my relatives in wuhan are concerned with us over here, asking if they need to send us anything lol
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