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Originally Posted by jwb
Close the borders entirely? What country on earth so you think would've done so?
Nobody knew the scale of this thing in ****ing November. China has dealt with any number of viral outbreaks that people worried would be the next pandemic. You never actually know when the big one is going to hit.
That's part of why they did a better job at handling it than us. Countries over there in east asia deal with this sort of thing semi frequently. They're more used to lockdowns and face masks etc. That's why it's absurd to point the finger at them for not containing it as if we would've done a better job at it.
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Assuming you believe the official records, the Chinese government noted the first coronavirus case on November 17th, and from that point onward they spent weeks and weeks trying to squash anyone who wanted to tell the rest of the world about it. So no, if anything, we should be pointing the finger at them a lot more.