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> COVID19 is the most severe (ie. contagious + fatal) airborne disease since the Spanish Flu. It very clearly is and it's out of the box, they can't stop it no

> COVID19 is the most severe (ie. contagious + fatal) airborne disease since the Spanish Flu. It very clearly is and it's out of the box, they can't stop it now. The US should be shutting down all travel into and out of the country, full quarantine from the rest of the world. We'd have a chance at stopping it from doing to the US what it has done to China, if we acted immediately, before it's across Europe and more of Asia and then imported in stealth mode by travelers from those regions that are unaware they're infected. Back in reality, the US economy will look like China's frozen economy, within a month or two, unless Covid is stopped soon. More likely, it's going to spread from Italy across Europe, and continue to spread across Asia. From those hyper economic zones, the US will be guaranteed to import it from multiple sources (no single country to shut down travel with). China went full totalitarian to an extreme, and couldn't stop it. Covid froze the second largest economy and did it in the span of a month. What chance does the rest of the world stand at stopping it? None. Bill Gates is worried about it spreading across Africa (and said in an interview a few weeks ago, when asked about his plans for the year: "well, I plan to travel a lot less this year" - yeah). He's obviously properly worried. It will kill a large number of people in poorer economic regions that will see their healthcare resources overwhelmed. The US is nowhere near prepared for what's likely about to hit.

DyslexicAtheist 7y ago
It's too late for this approach. The only reason that could explain why the US still does not have many cases is lack of testing and the fact that it goes undetected for a long time. As you said: > It very clearly is and it's out of the box
ardy42 7y ago
> It very clearly is and it's out of the box, they can't stop it now. The US should be shutting down all travel into and out of the country, full quarantine from the rest of the world. We'd have a chance at stopping it from doing to the US what it has done to China, if we acted immediately, before it's across Europe and more of Asia and then imported in stealth mode by travelers from those regions that are unaware they're infected. If we had a government that wasn't starved, it might also be preparing sufficient resources for if/when the virus does reach epidemic proportions here. Also, Americans have been trained to avoid the medical system and tough it out for cost-saving reasons, that training is going to be counterproductive here.
- AnimalMuppet 7y ago
  Starved? $4.1 trillion, and a nearly $1 trillion deficit, is "starved"? What in the world would "overfed" look like?
hhjinks 7y ago
> Covid froze the second largest economy and did it in the span of a month. What chance does the rest of the world stand at stopping it? None. This doesn't follow. It doesn't matter how large an economy is affected. The primary factor is contact between infected and healthy people. Areas with less population density might have a good shot at keeping infections down, like a lot of areas in Europe.
- viklove 7y ago
  > like a lot of areas in Europe. You misspelled America. Europe has a pretty high population density in comparison.

DyslexicAtheist 7y ago

It's too late for this approach. The only reason that could explain why the US still does not have many cases is lack of testing and the fact that it goes undetected for a long time. As you said: > It very clearly is and it's out of the box

ardy42 7y ago

> It very clearly is and it's out of the box, they can't stop it now. The US should be shutting down all travel into and out of the country, full quarantine from the rest of the world. We'd have a chance at stopping it from doing to the US what it has done to China, if we acted immediately, before it's across Europe and more of Asia and then imported in stealth mode by travelers from those regions that are unaware they're infected. If we had a government that wasn't starved, it might also be preparing sufficient resources for if/when the virus does reach epidemic proportions here. Also, Americans have been trained to avoid the medical system and tough it out for cost-saving reasons, that training is going to be counterproductive here.

AnimalMuppet 7y ago
Starved? $4.1 trillion, and a nearly $1 trillion deficit, is "starved"? What in the world would "overfed" look like?

hhjinks 7y ago

> Covid froze the second largest economy and did it in the span of a month. What chance does the rest of the world stand at stopping it? None. This doesn't follow. It doesn't matter how large an economy is affected. The primary factor is contact between infected and healthy people. Areas with less population density might have a good shot at keeping infections down, like a lot of areas in Europe.

viklove 7y ago
> like a lot of areas in Europe. You misspelled America. Europe has a pretty high population density in comparison.