From: bap@shrdlu.com   
      
   On 2024-06-04, 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.  Not that it necessarily distinguishes them from any other politician.   
   But it was what governments wanted to hear.  I don't remember it being   
   mentioned on the medical grapevine at any point.   
      
   It only accounts for the failures in the first few weeks or so, before   
   the first case in the USA.   
      
      
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   Bernard Peek   
   bap@shrdlu.com   
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