Answer:
when did we start looking at the coronavirus you may ask? Probably the second week in January, when it started popping up in China as an issue. they had interests in the global sourcing world, and they started getting reports on how it was impacting things in China, so we started watching it closely at that point. they decided to take a harder look at how to implement the plan we developed in 2009 into a tabletop exercise. On February 2, they dusted it off and compared the plan we had versus what we were seeing in China, and started working on step one pretty heavily.
By brushing it off they ruined valuable time they could have used to help create ample safer ideas.
