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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.49 [SLACK_000263] · slack_pm:msg:00484

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Date
2020-06-03 00:15
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Edward C. Holmes
Topics
Masks, lockdowns and NPIs

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Completely agree. NO country would have imposed a lockdown faster than China. No way. The mistake - which was understandable - is that they (China) assumed that was SARS and hence would be relatively easy to contain as they just had to quarantine the symptomatic cases.

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NO country would have imposed a lockdown faster than China. quoted / not their view hypothetical conditional framing asserts
The mistake - which was understandable - is that they (China) assumed that was SARS and hence would be relatively easy to contain as they just had to quarantine the symptomatic cases. quoted / not their view hypothetical conditional framing asserts

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  1. 2020-06-03 00:15 Edward C. Holmes
    Completely agree. NO country would have imposed a lockdown faster than China. No way. The mistake - which was understandable - is that they (China) assumed that was SARS and hence would be relatively easy to contain as they just had to quarantine the symptomatic cases.

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