Ugh. One year anniversary of my tweet in response to news of the Wuhan lockdown. *lolsob*https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1220061891613073409 …
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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
@ArisKatzourakis puts it).https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1348004639833206792 …zeynep tufekci added,
zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepReplying to @ArisKatzourakis @cagrimbakirciOnly islands from the "applied public health measures intelligently, aggressively, robustly and as early as possible before getting overwhelmed by exponential growth" region of France are islands, Aris! Otherwise it's not an island.2 replies 18 retweets 125 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @zeynep @ArisKatzourakis
To be fair, Taiwan is more attuned to Chinese propaganda than the rest of the world. So it understood rather faster than the rest of us what was going on.
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Replying to @myraemacdonald @ArisKatzourakis
Of course, but also Hong Kong and many other countries with experience with SARS and more realism about China knew what was (very likely up) pretty much the first week or so of January. China had also covered up SARS...
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Replying to @zeynep @ArisKatzourakis
Yes! I don't know enough about the US, but in the UK there's a huge problem with our politics that we tend to blame everything on the govt rather than China. I appreciate there's a balance there - both were wrong - but we skew too much in one direction.
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Replying to @myraemacdonald @ArisKatzourakis
I blame our governments for not responding properly. That's not China's fault.
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Replying to @zeynep @myraemacdonald
We can just contrast China’s response to the risk of an Importation and outbreak of B117...
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