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Ideally you have a highly functional public health system, testing and tracing, implement quarantine, reasonable isolation measures and border controls and don'
by shirro 6y ago
Ideally you have a highly functional public health system, testing and tracing, implement quarantine, reasonable isolation measures and border controls and don't need need these heroic medical interventions.
By the time you have hundreds or thousands of people on ventilators I think it is clear you have done something wrong.
Looking at the results in countries that were pro-active dealing with this pandemic and it is hard to see how it got so out of control in many other countries you would naively expect to have equivalent or better preparedness.
We are not out of this yet and perhaps even countries that have just about eliminated this virus will get overconfident and fall to later waves but at the moment it looks like there are some clear winners and losers.
- xiphias2 6y agoEven 100 years ago people knew that masks are critical for controlling pandemics (and not using them led to prison sentence). It seems like healthcare is going backwards by suggesting people against using it.
- RickJWagner 6y agoPlease enumerate the clear winners and losers, and provide your criteria. AFAICT, there are a few countries that have better morbidity rates at this stage of the game, but there's a lot of time left. Sweden is playing an uncommon angle, some say they are being smart, some say otherwise. etc. I think every country is doing what they can, we probably won't be able to tell who has 'won' and who has 'lost' even in a long time. Different concentrations of people per square KM will be a huge variable, for instance.
- sgent 6y agoGermany has done very well (in a traditional manner). Ireland as well. I agree with you that we still have a ways to go -- but every day we last means one more day gained worth of knowledge, trials, etc.