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Europe is having a handful of new cases? No, that isn’t true. Spain is reporting more than 10,000 new cases a day.
by umanwizard 6y ago
Europe is having a handful of new cases? No, that isn’t true. Spain is reporting more than 10,000 new cases a day.
- saagarjha 6y agoI did not specifically mention Spain, I was thinking of the other things on your list that are actually countries–as far as I am aware, cases in Australia are still going down, in China they are a negligible number, in New Zealand they had a couple dozen that they immediately locked down over and will likely stop the spread of. But since you brought it up, let's look at Spain–why does it have so many new cases every day? Because they aren't following the policies!
- umanwizard 6y agoYes, that is exactly my point. > It doesn't seem possible to permanently stop outbreaks without having either reached 20-25% of the population infected, or locking down until a cure or vaccine is discovered. You can't magically make yourself immune to future outbreaks by locking down - the only way to avoid outbreaks in the absence of widespread immunity is to maintain the lockdown indefinitely, until a cure or vaccine is discovered and widely distributed. So, it's not true that we could have eliminated the virus and been happily back to normal in the US if we had just locked down harder/better/longer. We would either still be locked down with no end in sight, or have opened back up and now be experiencing another outbreak. Not sure about China, but FWIW Australia and NZ are still quite locked down.