From: usenet@mikevanpelt.com   
      
   In article ,   
   Bernard Peek   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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