But that paper, at least in the abstract, talks about preventable deaths in China. The anti-communists talk about China being to blame for the deaths in other countries because those countries had no warning.

The paper was posted on March 13 [0], before Covid-19 peaked outside of China. Of course it didn’t focus on other places.

The abstract shows the authors believe its findings have relevance elsewhere:

> These findings improve our understanding of the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19, and will inform response efforts across the world

[0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.03.20029843v...

But what does that have to do with countries having plenty of warning and doing next to nothing? I feel like you replied to the wrong poster.