[LouieFisk]

“Jackson said he does not expect the virus to spread at the rate that it has in places like Italy and Iran due to the president’s “quick and decisive actions,” notably his decision to restrict travel into the U.S. from China in late January.”
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It’s already here and growing. It’s not dependent on new cases coming in from China.

[calenel]

“It’s already here and growing. It’s not dependent on new cases coming in from China.”

This is true, but it would be a lot further along without those early efforts by Trump.

Every time we kick the feet out from under this thing it has to start over.

Containment is key.

[jospehm20]

I think the point is that not as many people were here to spread it i the beginning because of the travel bans. I read somewhere that something like 100K Chinese workers live in Italy and many went home for Chinese New Year and then returned and brought the virus with them. I guess we will see in the near future if the US travel ban on China helped appreciably.

[Sacajaweau]

Of course we didn't even know this was going on because the Dems were busy impeaching the President and Nancy was nipping the edges of Trump's SOTU message.

Really liked Jackson. Sad what they did to him.