“Fresh evidence suggests that human carriers from China spread the Wuhan virus around the world.”
Of course they did, but it wasn’t a secret either, starting in mid-Jan as they were showing up around the world. The question really is whether governments took the virus seriously. As far as I can see, that only happened in very rare cases (Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and El Salvador).
And then what would have been the ‘right way’ to deal with it? Even today, with the virus exploding throughout the US, as many people are mad at Trump for doing too much, as are supporting what he’s doing...and it’s crossing party lines (on our side, it goes like this: “If I want to do stupid things and get infected, it’s my business”, my response is fine, just don’t go the hospital when you get sick). Had Trump started a month earlier, literally the entire country would have thought he was out of mind, panicking, and out of control.
My (sad) conclusion, like Pearl Harbor, this country needed a gut-punch to even start to wake us up and be willing to take the steps needed to prevent the loss of the US as we know it, and whether by screwing off or by design, we now have just that.
The question really is whether governments took the virus seriously
The Marxist-led WHO didn’t take the virus seriously in their rush to provide cover for the commie buddies in China. Not a problem! Travel restrictions are racist! Not communicable! It’s all we heard up thru mid-Feb.
The first genome sequence, Jan 9, remember ? released by Chi-com scientists, was ordered destroyed and the lab closed by the CCP. No telling what happened to the brave scientists that did release the sequence. Had it not been for Australia who were able to reproduce the sequence, it would have been weeks more before we knew what we were dealing with.
So I don’t think it’s a matter of govts not responding quick enough. It’s a matter of data being intentionally kept from govts that prevented those govts from responding in a manner that was appropriate to the danger, Tedros and his ‘windows of opportunity,’ until it the midnight hour was striking