Governments aren’t used to giving harsh orders, and citizens aren’t used to following them. But China acted with a severity and breadth that stunned the West, making unpopular moves and accepting deep economic damage as the price of containing the disease. “Whatever measures have been put in place in Europe really have only been put in place recently, and frankly, and none of them has been as draconian and all-encompassing as what was done in Wuhan,” Reingold said. While China lost precious weeks in the beginning, it then moved faster and more decisively than Western countries have. But that strategy, Reingold said, is “a herculean undertaking, very resource-intensive” — and one that the United States, in particular, could not replicate.

Source: bd News24 March 20, 2020 04:18 UTC