[digikazi]

Any intelligence service worth its salt would have kept a close eye on the situation developing in China, so in that respect this is not unexpected.

Personally I knew this could be very bad when I started hearing news about the Chinese qarantining first Wuhan, then the surrounding cities. This involved huge numbers of people and was done quite swiftly and on a scale never seen before in modern times (to my knowledge anyway). Quite frankly it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I did wonder at the time how long before it reaches our shores (not that long) and what would our response be like (nowhere near as organised and focused although I guess things are picking up). I'm in the UK.

[smacktoward]

The newsworthy bit isn't that intelligence services noted the potential threat. It's that the White House chose to ignore them.

[digikazi]

The White House ignoring sound advice and doing its own thing... we've had a few good years of that. How is that news? (By White House I mean one person, and I'm saying this in a jokey way)