Comments by "surely you joke, mein failüre" (@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531) on "Coronavirus Timeline Interview" video.

April, you got it right. The DNA sequence of the virus was released to the public on January 10. Smarter countries like Taiwan got with the program ASAP; the people began wearing masks universally, no questions asked, in service of the common good. Here in the USA, I'm still wearing out keyboards explaining to complete boneheaded morons who even now can't wrap their pin-sized brains around the concept of how everyone wearing masks all the time is far less inconvenient than, say, truckloads of bodies out in the streets, and much longer-lasting disruptions to normalcy.
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@Oni64 Remember when people were bemoaning the potential economic impacts to airlines and cruise lines if travel were to be restricted? And how that was the excuse to continue to let them spread disease all over the world? Such a high price to pay for such small-minded pursuit of profit in the first months of 2020.
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Have you noticed the precipitous decline in the rate of tests being performed in the USA? It's been trending down since July 29. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-tests-per-thousand-people-smoothed-7-day?tab=chart Guess Trump is getting his wish about less testing. This is going to work out as well as ending teen pregnancy by doing fewer pregnancy tests :(
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@kshred3043 To me it seemed like there was racism and western arrogance involved. People here in the USA seemed to be thinking that it was only through ineptness that things got out of control in China - surely our CDC would quickly and easily stomp it flat. The warning signs were all there, but few were listening. I first saw the story somewhere (maybe on Amy Goodman's program) in late December, and by mid-January I was stockpiling food, supplies, masks, sanitizer.
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