Political issues are the exact reason why everyone has been caught off-guard.
Politicians, all around the world, were thinking about the economy and their own chairs, but they were not looking at facts and figures. They were not seeing the shortcomings of their own way of thinking.
It only took some attention and observation to see what was happening, as I can prove:
February 27:
Of course Covid-19 will spread in the US. Probably, it is already spreading.
The reason why you hear that much from places like Italy is because we've screened many people, including many who appeared completely healthy or have mild symptoms.
If other countries, like Germany, France, the UK or the US only screen people with severe symptoms, they will only report fewer cases as the (luckily vast) majority will go undetected or will pass as standard flu.
As an example:
this
March 7:
Italy is about to quarantine 11 provinces, including Milan, for a rough total of 16 million people. The draft of the document is publicly available and the Government is believed to be signing it this evening.
I predict France and Germany will follow in the next days. I also think the US will too, as soon as the emergency will be publicly evident and Trump's lies will be trumped by reality.
March 9:
And it will grow, as soon as Germany, France and the US will aknowledge they are at least 2 weeks late in what they should do.
I was not guessing, I was seeing the data and the hints coming from all around the world.
If I could do it, Governments could too. If they didn't, they were too incompetent to understand basic facts, so they FAILED POLITICALLY, they were too presumptuous or too distracted or too incapable at choosing their priorities, so they FAILED POLITICALLY, or they had insufficient means, tools, equipment, infrastructure to handle the thing correctly, so the system has a history of POLITICAL FAILURE in addressing a possibility like this.
I sensed trouble the moment China quarantined Wuhan, but at the end of February, I was predicting what has happened.
Where the fu*k were those politicians you'd like to cuddle, if not with their head stuck deep down their own a*ses and thinking only on how to further their selfish political careers?
This pandemic snapped the foundations of our idolised socio-economic system and has shown all its unpreparedness and narrow-mindedness.
Of course it's political, all the real problems arise from how we thought the world should be organized and run. South Korea managed to stop it, with the same technology we had. What have they done differently? They made different POLITICAL choices.