Why didn’t they ground all flights out of China weeks ago?

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This could all have been prevented surely?

Wuhan was self isolating but flights still went out and it spread.

I don’t understand why flights were still coming and going from China then Iran, South Korea and Italy when the outbreaks hit there?

It seems to have been a conscious decision to allow it to spread.

Better to have had cancelled flights than the whole continent of Europe on the brink of lockdown.

Because of globalisation. Shutting down flights from China wouldn’t only have affected human passengers. It would have affected freight and exports and all kinds of other things. The impact on the world economy would have been vast. It’s easy with hindsight to decide when a decision like that should have been made, but it doesn’t make if any easier to make the decision at the time you have to do it.

I think it also spread faster than they expected. By the time they realised it existed, people had already been spreading it for weeks.

They could have stopped passenger flights.

I still think we should be holding the government to account over this.