I don't fully agree with the approach of legalizing something because something equivalently dangerous is already legal. If carrying around hand guns are legal, would you allow SMGs?

If you genuinely think existing drugs are dangerous and you were severely addicted to it, shouldn't you call for regulations to prevent that from happening for others?

Mine would be one running upcoming Ryzen APU!

On timeline of events, there was a week or so of delay between first death + ICL paper and the city lockdown. It can be argued the lockdown was very late.

The OP might also mean poor containment within China - which is only relying on other countries right now.

> containment within China

I find it incredibly hard to believe if this happened in other countries they'd simply ban all travel into and out of the nation.

Would your country do that given the same circumstance?

Very late relative to what?

Certainly later than one would hope, but is there a real world benchmark for the handling situations like this that they fell short of? Have similar viruses crossed over in other countries and been handled better?

International Conventions on Quarantines were basically established at a time when the most common global transmission of viruses was by sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine#International_conve...