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riversedge

(70,186 posts)
Thu May 7, 2020, 11:58 AM May 2020

'The #coronavirus had already got on a plane from China and went to Europe, then to East Coast" says

@govCuomo.-- He talked of this yesterday also--that we--Trump always talk of how virus came from China and how effective the china travel ban was! Nope, the sneaky virus had already traveled to Europe by the time put down his China ban.

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'The #coronavirus had already got on a plane from China and went to Europe, then to East Coast" says (Original Post) riversedge May 2020 OP
If they had banned travel from Wuhan last November, none of this would have happened. Initech May 2020 #1
In November? That would be extremely Xenophobic. at140 May 2020 #3
Not travel from China, just travel from Wuhan. Initech May 2020 #4
There are no special Chinese passports from Wuhan at140 May 2020 #7
Thats exactly what happened can't get to the US from China go to Europe.. Historic NY May 2020 #2
This is what the vector animations at NextStrain.org show. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #5
Report Stated Most U.S. Cases Came From Europe erpowers May 2020 #6
Which places it before S. Korea had their first test. Igel May 2020 #8

Initech

(100,062 posts)
1. If they had banned travel from Wuhan last November, none of this would have happened.
Thu May 7, 2020, 12:04 PM
May 2020

This was too little, too late.

Initech

(100,062 posts)
4. Not travel from China, just travel from Wuhan.
Thu May 7, 2020, 12:17 PM
May 2020

They should have locked this thing down tightly when they first heard about it. That is what Obama would have done. And that's what stopped Ebola.

They found the first case of COVID in Europe in France on December 6th. That means that from the day it was discovered, someone traveled outside of China to Europe, and then someone got infected and traveled here. So yeah tracing the sequence of events backwards, that's exactly what should have happened.

at140

(6,110 posts)
7. There are no special Chinese passports from Wuhan
Thu May 7, 2020, 12:35 PM
May 2020

and the traveler can simply go to Hong Kong first, and our immigration does not have the time or energy to investigate every traveler thoroughly at airports.

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)
2. Thats exactly what happened can't get to the US from China go to Europe..
Thu May 7, 2020, 12:05 PM
May 2020

and take a connecting flight. The biggly fucking failure of Donald J Trump, flights to England, Ireland, Germany, Italy, hop the next flight to the NY Metro area a choice of airports. Thankfully Norwegian pull out of Stewart International in Orange County N.Y. due to the Boeing 737 mess, or we would have had many more.

Trumps Pearl Harbor letting the China flights get here through the back door. I heard him (Trump) once say they were American citizens. Hello jackass you only checked Chinese off on the list. You should have been checking them all.

erpowers

(9,350 posts)
6. Report Stated Most U.S. Cases Came From Europe
Thu May 7, 2020, 12:24 PM
May 2020

I watched a news report that stated that most of the U.S. cases came from Europe. I think the report was from one of the CBS news shows.

Igel

(35,296 posts)
8. Which places it before S. Korea had their first test.
Thu May 7, 2020, 02:12 PM
May 2020

And probably before Germany had a test specific to SARS-CoV-2 instead of being a test generally based on SARS (1), and certainly before their initial, tentative kit was being produced in any great quantities.

Revise one part of the timeline, revisit all the conclusions from the older versions of the timeline.

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