Quote Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve View Post
This is what people don't get. This was going to happen. There's no way to fully stop it without a vaccine. The onus can't completely be on healthy people, but some have made it out that way. You have an obligation to take care of yourself. It's always been that way. If you're in a high risk category and choose to go out into large crowds then that tells me that you believe the reward is greater than the risk and you know what could happen. In the words of Ron Swanson, "If you want to eat garbage and balloon up to 600 lbs then that's your right". But you can't turn around and then get mad at others because they didn't protect you. You didn't protect yourself. I have a good friend who is a DIE HARD bulldog, but he's in a high risk category for this stuff. So he's made the sacrifice to not go to any ballgame and basically avoid large crowds whenever possible. He's taking care of himself instead of expecting others to do it and then getting mad when he inevitably would get sick.
Yep. As awful as China acted, once the virus was out of Wuhan (which probably happened extremely early), they probably couldn't have stopped it from blowing up into a pandemic even if they had tried. They could have made the harm a lot less bad early on if they had just been forthcoming and at least attempted to contain it from spreading internationally, and that could have made a big difference as far as getting our supply chains for medical supplies ready, but it probably wouldn't have utlimately prevented the pandemic.