Coronavirus (Covid-19) Discussion
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Those countries and cities are all full of the ultra wealthy
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I'd also like to point out that this doesn't have a binary outcome- either death or full recovery. Data is showing that there may be long term aftereffects for survivors, like permanent lung damage.
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What…do you think...those countries did...to control the outbreak...???
Exactly. The govt’s concerned stopped normal life going on, civic duty didn’t even come into it.
Let’s all show some common sense and restraint. Telling people their countries are «fucked» is uncool and likely to upset others. Respectful discussion and an appropriate tone please, ladies and gents. This is serious business.
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I live in MN, USA and I think the US took too long to act. The fact that we have such a focus on freedom to do as we wish here has probably prolonged our controlling of the virus. If our govt. said "stay inside for 2 weeks or be arrested" we could have gotten this thing slowed down faster (obviously that wouldn't happen).
On top of that, our country is so large that so many places thought the virus was simply "somewhere else" and not something our area had to worry about. Now it's too late for a lot of affected areas and we are looking at schools being closed for the rest of the year, sports cancellations and the american people's lives upended.
currently a chef working from home for the next few weeks at least. I'm lucky that my job is small and we are all safe and protected employment wise from this thing.
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for starters, i don't mean by saying that a country is fucked to mean any disrespect. if it came across that way, i do apologise.
what i'm trying to explain was things based around australia that i may not agree with. with current situation, isolation is probably best for europe and USA because of the huge spike in the number of cases. they also need a drastic solution to stop the massive spread that's been spiking in the last week.
however, things in australia is still fairly mild. Yes, i understand that it can balloon at any time but they still have time to look over to those countries that i've said to look at what they've done to maintain a low number, no deaths and normal life. rather than jumping straight to the extreme end of what europe and USA and trying to do.
i personally found the problem from the start was that most countries had a fear of "offending" china if you will, that they were slow to ban or restrict travel from china. from what i've read and remembered, most only restricted if you've been to china in the past 14 days rather than outright banning a chinese passport
i'm not trying to play down how bad this is. but with proper measures in place, things may not have turned out the way they are. i'm not fully sure about europe or USA's measures. but i was in singapore in feb and they banned all chinese nationals (as of today, it includes UK, Italy, France and south korea nationals) from entering or transiting through all ports. contact tracing is also another massive thing they focued on to isolate cases quickly. those two steps i've mentioned can be effective in identifying and isolating cases swiftly.
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I went to the local supermarket today to do the weekly shop.
There were no vegetables…
There wasn't much meat…
There was no toilet paper…
The government is going to have to start supplying these soon! :o
Fortunately, when the rest of us turn to cannibalism to survive, vegetarians like @Seul will be well fed!
