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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>...And there is next to no reason for them to cover up how they have done. It is much better than the US has done. The US, for a variety of reasons, squandered a couple of months at the start.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Keith<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Keith,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>I noticed the hardest-hit countries by covid were Belgium, UK, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Ireland, Netherlands, USA, Switzerland, Canada, Ecuador, Brazil, in that order. We all had the same news from the same sources about covid in January of 2020, but we can see a common factor: the hardest-hit places were those with a lot of international travel. All those places had citizens abroad when the pandemic struck, and plenty of Chinese citizens doing business before we knew the danger. There is not one thing these governments could do with those cases: people have a right to return to their own homes. Some were infected. They can make them self-quarantine for a couple of weeks, but as far as I know there is no legal means of enforcing that anywhere in these hardest-hit countries. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>I have a neighbor who we think had covid. He still went out walking in the neighborhood as soon as he was physically able (we gave him plenty of space (on his sincere advice.)) I don't know how it works in China, but I have heard that if the government (at any level) gives orders, the people must obey, and they do. Here, there are no known legal repercussions if we ignore social distancing orders from the county while we riot, burn and loot.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>