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by Semaphor 2170 days ago
https://www.victimsofcommunism.org/voc-news/2020/4/5/blame-t...

It’s a hilarious read:

> If Beijing had given the real number of infected people and deaths, other countries would have recognized the danger, and taken necessary steps.

No matter what transpired, eventually there was a warning, and most countries still took no steps until they had high numbers themselves. Hell, Italy could have been the warning and it would have helped.
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hkmaxpro 2170 days ago
A Nature paper [0] suggests that 66 or even 95 percent of the cases could be avoided, had China acted on the coronavirus 1 to 3 weeks earlier [1].

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2293-x

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/11/research-finds...

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Semaphor 2170 days ago
But that paper, at least in the abstract, talks about preventable deaths in China. The anti-communists talk about China being to blame for the deaths in other countries because those countries had no warning.
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hkmaxpro 2170 days ago
The paper was posted on March 13 [0], before Covid-19 peaked outside of China. Of course it didn’t focus on other places.

The abstract shows the authors believe its findings have relevance elsewhere:

> These findings improve our understanding of the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19, and will inform response efforts across the world

[0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.03.20029843v...

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Semaphor 2170 days ago
But what does that have to do with countries having plenty of warning and doing next to nothing? I feel like you replied to the wrong poster.
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