ok, but bear in mind my furry FRiend, that this is Feb 20. On Jan 20, we had no clue what was going on for the most part other than the CCP was playing hide and seek like the big fat liars they have always been.
The virus genome was identified Jan 13 and the full sequencing by France’s Pasteur Institute only completed Jan 29, the same day the first rescue flight touched down at March ARB. (after twiddling around for a week with CCP napoleons) We went into two steps of flight restrictions trying to leave the door open for Americans outside of Wuhan to get home, and then full restrictions (no Chinese nationals) by Feb 2 - which was three days after our patients landed and with just the weekend for airlines and airports to comply by Feb 5. Feb 5th being the 12th day of Wuhan lockdown. While we were also locking down our ports.
I’m not sure you can really say it’s money driven since there was no business over the Chinese holiday. But, I will concede, we’ve given our friends the Japanese a whole lot of rope and they got all twisted up. So we need to put the kabosh on any flights out of there until they stabilize. Because 10K self-quarantines are quite enough, thanks.
We should not be dealing with 10,000 plus self quaratines scattered throughout our country. They are also throughout Central and Southern America. That is our end.