One more primary failure: Containment. Thesis: Preventing travel (get the planes out of the air) from infected areas would contain the virus. Individual countries (including China), showed that virus could be controlled eliminated, if infections were not imported.
Antithesis: It costs too much, kills the tourist/travel industry; I want to travel; Restrictions on freedom are evil..
Well once it took hold, the restrictions happened anyway. Doing it early would dramatically reduced cost. If the symptoms had been as alarming as say Ebola, then I think early action would have been easier. “Coronavirus = cold” was all too common—maybe it should have been called SARS immediately?
One more primary failure: Containment.
Thesis: Preventing travel (get the planes out of the air) from infected areas would contain the virus. Individual countries (including China), showed that virus could be controlled eliminated, if infections were not imported.
Antithesis: It costs too much, kills the tourist/travel industry; I want to travel; Restrictions on freedom are evil..
Well once it took hold, the restrictions happened anyway. Doing it early would dramatically reduced cost. If the symptoms had been as alarming as say Ebola, then I think early action would have been easier. “Coronavirus = cold” was all too common—maybe it should have been called SARS immediately?