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I’m very worried because: - We don’t have good data on the true morbidity rate. - The actions China is taking seem very extreme and they have the most experie
by throwbabythrow 7y ago
I’m very worried because:
- We don’t have good data on the true morbidity rate.
- The actions China is taking seem very extreme and they have the most experience with it.
- Isolated quarantine of infected patients seems like the only way to prevent its spread and this is hard to do given our 2020 way of life.
- Did I mention we don’t have good data? But the reports of longer than 14 day incubation periods, re-infection, and asymptomatic spread are worrying.
- The US health system seems quite unprepared. We have ~100,000 ICU beds total.
- Not to mention the economic impact. So, so many goods made in China and SE Asia, and in fact, in the least developed countries whose health systems are worst.
- Vaccine or a kind mutation seem like the best hope to me, and these are very uncertain.
- FailMore 7y agoYes it's the actions that China are taking that seem so out of whack with the current 'it's flu+' narrative. I don't think China enjoys doing this to it's people, it likes minimising the risk of unrest and this does not do that. And I also think that, if the actions they are taking are necessary, there is no way for a western country to replicate them (right now 60 million people are banned from driving, that's like banning the whole of my country's population!)