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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'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.
Initech
(100,062 posts)This was too little, too late.
at140
(6,110 posts)Initech
(100,062 posts)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)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)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.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)erpowers
(9,350 posts)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)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.