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   On Tue, 4 Jun 2024, Mike Van Pelt wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
   >   
      
   True. With response time in hours, the world economy would collapse   
   multiple times given how many fake scares we would have.   
      
   The best option would have been, like sweden, to issue some   
   recommendations to protect the old and do absolutely nothing.   
      
   But boy was the international community angry with sweden for showing that   
   no lock downs were necessary and neither were masks. They destroyed   
   completely any credibility the rest of the worlds politicians had! =)   
      
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