This. 100%.
If countries had used the two months of warning we had instead of buying into Chinese propaganda and WHO downplaying, we could have had broad testing protocols, contact tracing, mask and social distancing practices all organized by the time shit hit the fan in the west. Instead, we had some leaders calling it a hoax and saying no one was going to die (Trump style), other leaders afraid to do anything for fear of seeming anti-Chinese/racist and offending the progressive identity politics crowd (Trudeau style). And we ended up with a full blown shut down because we weren’t prepared at all.
If countries had used the two months of warning we had instead of buying into Chinese propaganda and WHO downplaying, we could have had broad testing protocols, contact tracing, mask and social distancing practices all organized by the time shit hit the fan in the west. Instead, we had some leaders calling it a hoax and saying no one was going to die (Trump style), other leaders afraid to do anything for fear of seeming anti-Chinese/racist and offending the progressive identity politics crowd (Trudeau style). And we ended up with a full blown shut down because we weren’t prepared at all.
Next time something like this happens, alot of the things will be dealt very differently and that's why humans exist, because we can adapt. Im just afraid when something like this happens next time, people are literally panicing out that much that it's a lockdown regardless and it will last as long as it's gone. Like all the moral based things, whether it's right thing to go work, is it right to be outside and so on. It gonna affect in a same way, whether we want or not so i really can't be dissapointed how this was dealt with, as it was something new for everyone and result would have always been a lockdown, but the lenght of it might have been different.
