Coronavirus / COVID-19

[ReluctantSamurai]

I’m Canadian. This is the Wayne Gretzky of viruses — people didn’t think it was big enough or fast enough to have the impact it does

This. Outside of China, efforts to deal with COVID-19 have been mostly reactionary. I would postulate that countries don't want to rock the economic boat, so they take a wait-and-see approach, Italy being the prime example. And now look...an entire province of 16 million on lock-down. Too late.

As soon as you find clusters, you shut schools, theaters, restaurants. Only Wuhan and the cities near it went into total lockdown.

Back of the envelope, it’s hundreds of thousands of people in China that did not get Covid-19 because of this aggressive response.

Seeing what I've been seeing, if other countries, particularly my own US of A, doesn't follow this protocol, it's going to be a very loooong spring and early summer.

75 to 80 percent of all clusters are in families. You get the odd ones in hospitals or restaurants or prisons, but the vast majority are in families.

Be curious to know if this holds true outside of China

The government made it clear: testing is free. And if it was Covid-19, when your insurance ended, the state picked up everything.

In the U.S., that’s a barrier to speed. People think: “If I see my doctor, it’s going to cost me $100. If I end up in the I.C.U., what’s it going to cost me?” That’ll kill you. That’s what could wreak havoc. This is where universal health care coverage and security intersect. The U.S. has to think this through.

Yep, and the US could be in BIG trouble, especially with a president who thought COVID-19 was just another flu, and his crony Pence who's response to an HIV outbreak when he was governor of Indiana, was abysmal:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazi...k-worse-118648

Pence’s handling of the Indiana HIV outbreak is a case study in mismanagement of a public health crisis. His inaction as governor gave Austin, Indiana with a population of around 4,200, a higher HIV incidence than “any country in sub-Saharan Africa"

Yeah, Donny Baby, just the man to put in charge

They’re mobilized, like in a war, and it’s fear of the virus that was driving them.

God help us here, because we can't even provide test kits that actually function