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to be fair, you can adopt europe/wuhan-style total lockdown but you could also adopt developed-asia-style mass tracing. The latter seems to have been way more
by riffraff 7y ago
to be fair, you can adopt europe/wuhan-style total lockdown but you could also adopt developed-asia-style mass tracing.
The latter seems to have been way more effective in containing the epidemic and less impactful on the economy.
So, there was third option which saves both people and economy, but it's probably politically unfeasible.
- foota 7y agoIt's not politically infeasible, the adminstration just fucked it up. We could have been mass testing like other countries back in early February.
- TomMckenny 7y agoThe sole alternate to wuhan-style lock down is not utter incompetence. You could have an administration spend the early days working on the problem and appointing an epidemiologist to spearhead it rather than assert it's "fake news" from political enemies, appointing a loyal politician to manage it and classifying early data. For one, you could so easily just inform distributors ahead of announcements to address hording and delivery instead of leaving the elderly with no to get food. Even merely a large government orders for masks at at the beginning would have had a huge impact.
- thu2111 7y agoIt's too early to evaluate the tracing approach. The problem is what happens when other people come in from the outside. This is now a major problem in Beijing; not internal transmission but cases brought by arrivals.