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The world didn't mobilized for ww2. One country mobilized and started to threaten the existence of all.its neighboring states, and those who managed to leverage
by barumi 6y ago
The world didn't mobilized for ww2. One country mobilized and started to threaten the existence of all.its neighboring states, and those who managed to leverage geographical and climate barriers managed to prepare themselves to intervene.
This is by far not the challenge covid19 poses to the world. It wasn't when it was China's local and regional problem, and it is not after it spread out of China and became a pandemic.
Objectively, at most Covid19 causes a slight increase in the global death rate, and this is only observed during the initial spread before herd immunity kicks in. Ww2 killed about 90 million people in 6 years, while covid is bound to have killed about 1.3 million in one year.
- ceejayoz 6y agoThe analogy is imperfect, but it's imperfect in both directions - we don't have to make 300k planes and fight Nazis, we "just" have to produce a bunch of vaccine and some freezers. It should be substantially less difficult than winning WWII, which again - we were capable of scaling up industrially to accomplish. > this is only observed during the initial spread before herd immunity kicks in When will that be? NYC's new spike is demonstrating even their enormous outbreak didn't generate enough of it.
- WillPostForFood 6y agoThe US has the manufacturing capacity for ships and planes before WW II. Do we have any factories left making refrigerators? Or are we just going to have to order them from China?
- ceejayoz 6y ago> Or are we just going to have to order them from China? It's a global pandemic. Order them from anyone who can make them at scale. Coordinate with the WHO to avoid silly bidding wars.
- sithlord 6y agoI do not believe herd immunity is a thing when every 6 months the herd has to become re-immune