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WHO says it can be contained but countries are not doing it.
They seem to disagree but don't say why. There is no discussion.
There is no talk in the media about China's success and WHO's
almost desperate continued calls to repeat it.
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16:34-UTC , WHO calls it a pandemic
“We’re deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity
and by the alarming levels of inaction,”
several countries have demonstrated the ability to suppress and control the outbreak,
Tedros scolded other world leaders for failing to act quickly enough or drastically
enough to contain the spread.
All countries can still change the course of this pandemic,”
We are grateful for the measures in Iran, Italy, Korea.
# they seem to disagree, but there is no discussion about the reasons
# I wonder who is "we", when Tedros says "we" and whether they consulted
# with the world's politicians and experts
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China extended the holidays, people didn't come to work.
Except the essential business. In some cities they also reduced public transport,
there was massive contact-tracing, fever screening ...
See the WHO chinese mission report [link].
And it went down everywhere, all provinces,
In Wuhan it took 1-2 weeks longer than elsewhere..
Yes, it's bad for the economy but so is it to do nothing or not enough.
US,EU Stocks fell >20% and are now worse than the Chinese markets
which recovered.
I assume, people will stop coming to work anyway in some weeks,
most schools will be closed, events canceled, compare with 1918.
But will they stop cars, control shopping, fever screening and that ?
And they almost already gave up contact tracing, it requires cooperation.
But when we are at that point it will be already very bad here, very hard
to stop it, see Wuhan. "speed is everything" says WHO.
Wuhan got much help from China, HCW teams, food.
Now it looks as if here it will be much worse than it was in Wuhan.
>5 million deaths in USA if it continues this way.
Well, at some point people _will_ probably stay at home, the economy collapses.
Hospitals anyway.
How long can that go without help from outside ?
Until summer, when maybe it slows down if we are lucky ?
WHO says it can be contained but countries are not doing it.
They seem to disagree but don't say why. There is no discussion.
There is no talk in the media about China's success and WHO's
almost desperate continued calls to repeat it.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
16:34-UTC , WHO calls it a pandemic
“We’re deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity
and by the alarming levels of inaction,”
several countries have demonstrated the ability to suppress and control the outbreak,
Tedros scolded other world leaders for failing to act quickly enough or drastically
enough to contain the spread.
All countries can still change the course of this pandemic,”
We are grateful for the measures in Iran, Italy, Korea.
# they seem to disagree, but there is no discussion about the reasons
# I wonder who is "we", when Tedros says "we" and whether they consulted
# with the world's politicians and experts
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
China extended the holidays, people didn't come to work.
Except the essential business. In some cities they also reduced public transport,
there was massive contact-tracing, fever screening ...
See the WHO chinese mission report [link].
And it went down everywhere, all provinces,
In Wuhan it took 1-2 weeks longer than elsewhere..
Yes, it's bad for the economy but so is it to do nothing or not enough.
US,EU Stocks fell >20% and are now worse than the Chinese markets
which recovered.
I assume, people will stop coming to work anyway in some weeks,
most schools will be closed, events canceled, compare with 1918.
But will they stop cars, control shopping, fever screening and that ?
And they almost already gave up contact tracing, it requires cooperation.
But when we are at that point it will be already very bad here, very hard
to stop it, see Wuhan. "speed is everything" says WHO.
Wuhan got much help from China, HCW teams, food.
Now it looks as if here it will be much worse than it was in Wuhan.
>5 million deaths in USA if it continues this way.
Well, at some point people _will_ probably stay at home, the economy collapses.
Hospitals anyway.
How long can that go without help from outside ?
Until summer, when maybe it slows down if we are lucky ?
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