Right...which is why Europe is being hammered with this right now, and it’s just starting here. Once it broke containment in Europe it pretty much screwed the rest of the world. The young are often asymptomatic carriers, and symptomatic carries are infectious for a week without showing symptoms. Travel restrictions, AKA quarantines, are kind of the responsible and correct moves for highly infectious diseases that no one has immunity too.
But you’re right, thank god Europe wasn’t racist...well, they are now, but imagine how bad it would’ve looked then...when it counted. Saying that a highly infectious disease to which no human has immunity from comes from a certain place is racist, and restricting travel from that place is racist and outweighs the health of the entire world.
Europe is closer to China, of course they were going to get hit harder first.
Iran is pretty much a closed society, they are getting massively hit. We could discuss how Trump's sanctions against Iran is killing thousands of people over there, but naw, it'll be fine.
What?? China is one of Iran’s biggest partners, they’re basically allies. North Korea is close to a closed society, Iran isn’t. It’s just not a good idea for Americans, or really anyone from the west, to vacation in Iran because you might get accused of being a spy.
And I’m sure that extra hour of flight time of China to Europe, vs China to America totally made the difference. WTF, are you talking about? Do you hear yourself? There are these places called airports where thousands of people a day go to travel all over the globe, and they get crammed ass to pubes into lines, so they can sit elbow to elbow with a different group of people in a waiting area, or they may grab a bite to eat in a public food court, and then they then sit elbow to elbow inside a flying tube using recycled ventilation. They then get off into another airport where they either arrive at their destination to sit in an Uber that others will later use, and then intermingle with the people there, or repeat the process to sit elbow to elbow with yet another different group of people on a flying tube with recycled air.
Infectious diseases travel further and faster then they ever did in human history. It’s inevitable, disease will break out of its place of origin. The trick is to contain it at the place of origin, and then contain it in the few places it pops up elsewhere. Even Ebola made it to the US despite no direct flights to the US, and despite a minimal amount of daily air travel to begin with from the countries of origin. Ebola was far less infectious and way easier to spot...just waaaay deadlier. Mainland China on the other hand has similar unsanitary conditions to west Africa, but has far more people and animals stacked on top of each other by the millions, and infinitely more air travel on a daily basis than west Africa. You can contain infections from 1 or 2 infectious patients a week traveling. You can’t contain 30, let alone the probably hundreds a week that we’re coming out of China at one point traveling to god knows where. We put travel restrictions on west Africa for a far less infectious disease that was easier to contain and screen for, where there wasn’t a whole lot of air travel. But I guess it’s racist to point that out. If that’s racist then it’s also racist to say don’t drink the water in South America.