Come on Gandalf, you were Dr Pangloss back then. I recall being laughed at for suggesting the WHO recommend against people going on cruise ships in the region at the time. Even now, you don't accept that we should have stopped flights from infected regions which I advocated at the time, likewise, I was urging port screening, hence my email to my MP on 7th February which elicited the most complacent response imaginable from the Home Office.
We should have closed borders to infected regions and had port screening in place right from early February - that is the only environment in which quarantine and contact tracing can possibly be effective.
Originally Posted by: Maunder Minimum