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Interesting (free to read I think) article in the Financial Times today on the spread of COVID in China - talking about how China's top-down system was really bad for stopping it early on because everyone was dithering waiting for higher-ups to give them the go-ahead, but once that go-ahead was given it was wayyyyyy more effective than any western country, suppressing the virus in almost totality over the course of about a month.
For all of the Chinese system’s shortcomings in the earliest days and weeks of the outbreak, the rest of the world should have been on high alert. As soon as human-to-human transmission was confirmed and Wuhan went into quarantine a few days later, countries could have prepared themselves for its arrival as effectively as Taiwan and South Korea did, among others.
Most did not.
From what I can work out in Ireland, we've just been firefighting day to day and week to week rather than doing what I guess @Cormcolash has been calling for. I still want to know how we would stop the northern Ireland border fucking it up completely if tried though.
For all of the Chinese system’s shortcomings in the earliest days and weeks of the outbreak, the rest of the world should have been on high alert. As soon as human-to-human transmission was confirmed and Wuhan went into quarantine a few days later, countries could have prepared themselves for its arrival as effectively as Taiwan and South Korea did, among others.
Most did not.
From what I can work out in Ireland, we've just been firefighting day to day and week to week rather than doing what I guess @Cormcolash has been calling for. I still want to know how we would stop the northern Ireland border fucking it up completely if tried though.