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This is essentially what South Korea did. Granted it was done in a different way but everyone was “tested.” I was there just as covid-19 was on the rise and eve
by distantaidenn 6y ago
This is essentially what South Korea did. Granted it was done in a different way but everyone was “tested.” I was there just as covid-19 was on the rise and every shop, every station, and every high traffic area had people set up with thermal guns. Shop staff were having their temps checked before their shifts started. Everyone was gloved and masked. And once they had a proper test in place it was made easily accessible — even set up drive through testing.
And now they are pretty much back to normal while much of the world is still at a standstill.
- jhwang5 6y agoBut of course you need to package it as an unique, never seen before, game changing solution and write a blog post about it. He’s shilling his startup
- toyg 6y agoThey learnt from the previous SARS bout, reportedly thanks to a number of political factors aligning properly. The sad thing is that basically nobody else did, among major players. Even other countries in the area (i.e. Japan and China) just went “phew!” after SARS and didn’t substantially review their response strategies. Which is how China was caught napping, Japan is still fundamentally in denial, and everyone else got their asses handed to them by covid19.
- user5994461 6y agoChina had dispatched detachments of specialists to evaluate the unknown disease in mid December. They knew they were facing a new coronavirus ala SARS end of December and started closing Wuhan then other provinces in January. Not the chill lockdown like Europe, real lockdown where they close all transports, scan all citizens at checkpoints and have the police beatup people going out without masks. Napping is not the word for that.