This virus has been here for MONTHS, probably started here in the US in late December..people walked around with it and no one knew, no one made a fuss..meanwhile when the swine flu killed over 19,000 Americans, no one knew, no one cared, the economy did NOT get shut down, because they all wanted to protect Obama who did NOTHING for months before declaring a national emergency
probably started here in the US in late December..people walked around with it and no one knew,
There do appear to have been a handful of cases that made it in in mid-January.
If you’re going to compare with flus, understand that for those outbreaks, the “beginning’ includes a solid running-start of thousands of cases already out there, which is a large part of why we don’t even try to track them, quarantine them, or even identify them beyond their doctor’s diagnosing them. Those “outbreaks” begin 9 months or so before.
Whether the shutdown here is appropriate, warranted, or wise, these are very different situations, with this outbreak only hitting a hundred folks about a month ago and already approaching 7k and accelerating.
It may seem like forever now, but on March 2 we were at 100 known cases, with evidence that there were not many unknown (that had it long enough to have start of symptoms), and crossed 1000 on March 11th.