Again failing to address any of the five points.
I don't give credence to poorly informed China bashing.
Here's some of the official advice from the WHO regarding what was
necessary in respect of international travel:
Advice for entry screening in countries/areas without transmission of the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV
- Evidence shows that temperature screening to detect potential suspect cases at entry may miss travelers incubating the disease or travelers concealing fever during travel and may require substantial investments. However, during the current outbreak with the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV, the majority of exported cases were detected through entry screening. The risk of importation of the disease may be reduced if temperature screening at entry is associated with early detection of symptomatic passengers and their referral for medical follow up.
- Temperature screening should always be accompanied by dissemination of risk communication messages at points of entry. This can be done through posters, leaflets, electronic bulletin, etc, aiming at raising awareness among travelers about signs and symptoms of the disease, and encouragement of health care seeking behavior, including when to seek medical care, and report of their travel history.
- Counties implementing temperature screening are encouraged to establish proper mechanism for data collection and analysis, e.g .numbers of travelers screened and confirmed cases out of screened passengers, and method of screening. In implementing entry screening, countries should take into account national policies and capacity.
- Public health authorities should reinforce collaboration with airlines operators for case management on board aircraft and reporting, should a traveler with respiratory disease symptoms is detected, in accordance with the IATA guidance for cabin crew to manage suspected communicable disease on board an aircraft.
Previous advice with regards to procedures for a sick traveller detected on board a plane and requirements for IHR capacities at points of entry remains unchanged
(see WHO Advice published on 10 January 2020).
Where are your media quotes about what other nations were doing to comply with the WHO's recommendations?
You points smack of the xenophobia that led to Chinese been shunned in our communities and their businesses being the first to hit the wall.
The WHO outlined what they saw as
necessary and very few countries acted on it.
Why is that not important?
As late as a few weeks ago Australia had done nothing at points of entry, and as late as Friday we stuffed up handling a large number of doctors who caught a private flight back to Sydney.
What Australia and the USA did for months was rely on a ham-fisted shortcut in selectively restricting travel from China and other countries
without implementing other port of entry health initiatives and controls. This has been most apparent with cruise ship passenger mishandling.
What your bias has also overlooked is that that some of the early spread to other countries preceded knowledge of COVID-19's asymptomatic veracity.
This article explains the significance of that omission.
I can see from some of your quotes that you read from rather unscrupulous media, so I am not going to waste any more time addressing what you have peddled.