That’s fair enough. As I said before, the west fucked up badly by not preparing for this. We had two months, and we did nothing. We didn’t even have enough tests to start mass testing ffs. So we were behind from the very beginning. And the strict lockdowns are the consequence of that. We are going to suffer a little because of the morons in power, the Trump admin, etc. Because the Chinese lied about the seriousness of this too.
A 12-18 month lockdown isn’t sustainable, of course. But 12-18 months in a situation like S Korea or Taiwan with businesses open, schools open, etc, the economy moving even if at a slower pace, can be weathered far better than catastrophic death tolls and health care system collapse.
So this 1-2 month period allows our governments to get their shit together, get the health care system supplied and humming, to organize more efficient and effective mass testing and isolation protocols to reduce spread and Future outbreaks, and look at better treatments. Hopefully we use this period very well, or the next year will be tragic, whatever we do.
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https://www.thelocal.it/20200403/whats-the-problem-with-italys-official-coronavirus-statistics
Scary. The mortality in March 2020 is so much higher than the mortality rate in March 2019 added to official covid-19 deaths
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