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In article <lbr238Fa73cU1@mid.individual.net>,
Bernard Peek  <bap@shrdlu.com> wrote:
>The measures were probably excessive for a disease with a
>mortality of 0.5% but would have been woefully inadequate if
>it had been 2.5% instead. We took months to impose pretty
>feeble restrictions. I would like to see response-times
>measured in hours.

One of the big problems preventing early measures from being
taken was believing a word that came from the ChiCom regime.
The WHO basically parroted whatever they said about no
human-to-human transmission, etc., until it became impossible
to ignore.  The rest of the world needs to recognize that
totalitarian despots lie.

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