China and SoKo took immediate measures and were prepared - They're curve has flattened almost completely - Ours is off the chain at present. Your Orange Clown dithered, denied and misinformed idiots such as yourself for the past two months.
Nice job on the airports in the UK and Ireland BTW. I know people trying to get back have been thrilled with their 8 hour waits thanks to the barrage of stupidity from the Oval Office which they didn't even run by the airlines first.
Chaos is about all Donnie is worth.
The "immediate measures" taken by China are what foisted this pandemic on the world. Their initial response was denial. Next, they accused those who raised the alarm of fear mongering, of trying to create a panic. They were so preoccupied with saving face and keeping the economy going that they failed to contain this when they had the opportunity.
Sound familiar?
They were less than forthcoming to the rest of us. Not the point. They handled it with Draconian isolation measures, closures and TESTING.
Their curve is FLAT at present and business like multiple Apple locations have reopened.
China took the extraordinary step of locking down tens of millions of people days in advance of the Lunar New Year, to prevent the virus from spreading around the country from Wuhan, the city where the outbreak appears to have started. Many experts at the time said it would have been impossible to slow a rapidly transmitting respiratory infection by effectively shutting down enormous cities — and possibly counterproductive.
But the quarantines, unprecedented in modern times, appear to have prevented explosive outbreaks from occurring in cities outside of Hubei province, where Wuhan is located.
Since then, spread of the virus in China has slowed to a trickle; the country reported only 19 cases on Monday. And South Korea, which has had the third largest outbreak outside of China, also appears to be beating back transmission through aggressive actions. But other places, notably Italy and Iran, are struggling.
'Flattening the curve’ may be the world’s best bet to slow the coronavirus