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JANUARY 14TH???? Look, you can possibly get away with this stuff in the political forum, but that won't fly here. On January 14th, almost nobody knew this thing existed. There were less than 20 cases. The WHO had been involved for 2 weeks and hadn't made it to China yet.
If available, please link to a non-Twitter traditional-media source. Is that from a tweet, going by the hashtags?
They may have. But if so, that's only because they didn't yet know what they were dealing with. Their situation reports didn't even start until January 21st.
I mean ... OK, but that was a terrible look. What was the WHO party line in mid-January? That it only spread animal-to-person?
In the very first situation report where the virus was first discovered to have reached the USA, the WHO made the following statement:
Yeah, China might have been late to the game. What's your point?
China had known about it since November and there were already thousands of cases by mid-January. China was just clamping down on information release.
January 23rd was also the date the Wuhan lockdown started -- there were 45 known carriers one week earlier, on January 16th.
wife and i went out for the 1st time in 2 weeks today. we chose to wear gloves and simple masks. maybe 10% of the other people had on masks. it was annoying, but why not do it? it does nothing to inconvenience you. and in today's pandemic environment, hitting a store, 2-3 times a week, is a lot. IMHO
They reported what China "found". They quickly reversed course when they saw the evidence. If China lied for the first few days, that's on China. If someone wants to believe that the WHO knew China was lying and yet wrote that tweet anyway, that person would be a conspiracy theorist.
Good question. I haven't researched that too much. There was some odd stuff happening in Washington for the first few weeks it was here. I believe one of the posters here from Seattle knew more about it. The first public advisory I can find from the CDC is from February the 7th, and you really can't read what it said because it's a webpage that's been updated.
This will probably sound lame but I wear glasses and am a mouth breather . when I wear a mask, which I have tried for certain household projects , my glasses fog up. Like all the time. Its annoying.
what's with the forced part? i'm genuinely curious.
i didn't want to wear it, i just did it, in today's vernacular. "an abundance of caution" 
maybe, i do understand 
I think that's a major milestone in when alarm bells should have been ringing everyone's ears off
Well, the government could force the wearing of masks in public. Or it could become overwhelming used by people even if optional that it becomes "socially forced".what's with the forced part? i'm genuinely curious.
just wear it, when you're in the store. it's zero inconvenience.
plus, my wife made me do it.
To be fair- even if you weren't a mouth breather, your nose would screw things up.
Well if it is true that close to 50% of tests in NY or NYC (can't remember which) has been positive lately then this halt is unfortunately brought on by insufficient testing
We will set new (ugly) records in every category today. Also, it's a bit early to report new cases for today. Many states and some countries haven't sent in their final numbers.
An N95 mask is what I'd want to be wearing if I walked down an aisle that someone had sneezed in 30 seconds prior.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-the-coronavirus-spread-around-the-world-so-rapidly-and-what-we-can-learn-from-missteps-made-in-those-critical-early-days-2020-03-04
That's because China was covering up and WHO was buying into what China was telling them.
Early on, that's probably true. Once the WHO got on the ground and China began sharing info and went into mass quarantine mode, the info has been very transparent.
Nothing works. I’ve been trying everything out on my route the past two days. My sunglasses fog up no matter what I tried. I gave up, I’m wearing a surgical mask and latex gloves, no sunglasses. It sucks but it is what it is.
