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Originally Posted by freebeard
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Newsflash 2: many US universities have become bloated with administrators and relies on overseas student tuition (usually 20+k/semester extra in state schools) to stay afloat (a lot of schools are going to close in the coming drepression), winter break and summer break are by far the highest volume of travellers from China (and a few other countries you may be able to guess) as a result. Did you know 3 million Chinese tourists visit the US every year?
Newsflash 3: Numerous cases were imported from Europe in March. I know people who travelled to Italy and such and waltzed right through JFK back into the city as late as March 12th, some who had fever and dry cough.
Newsflash 4: Instead of repeating the sensationalist headlines, actually reading the articles that say "CHINA LIE! WE WEREN'T PREPARED BECAUSE OF THAT" turns up zero new information (and yes I was reading the right wing articles). Without RT-PCR tests (first available January 12 + lag time for the test itself), it is true that there is no conclusive evidence of human-human transmission...whether that is a prudent thing to tell the public or not is a different story.
Either way, that was January...in February they reported tens of thousands of cases appearing in under 2 weeks, and now people are saying "we weren't warned!"???? What?
Partisanship lets leaders get away with doing a horrible job, and is bringing us down the path to civil war. De Blasio is responsible. Feinstein is responsible. So are Loeffler, Abbott, Trump. Be objective and don't indulge confirmation bias if you want civilization to still be around.