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why are the 'big' governments not taking coronavirus seriously?


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Because we're in an internet-connected world. Every single movement is played out to be 1000x what was actually done. Collateral damage will come in all areas since we've chosen the soft quiet route, as a world, to fix this.

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3 minutes ago, lighterxx said:

Exactly thats why i think people will eat their words about how its nothing 

I saw on the news a guy shaking and convulsing and they were explaining the science behind it. Lol. Yeesh.

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long rant, skip to the last paragraph if you wanna avoid wall-of-text:

This virus has some characteristics that punished delay in reaction harsher than H1N1 for instance. It was the perfect storm for it. It was predictable if the countries prepared. However, after the pandemic of 2009, countries did not follow lessons learnt from that one and some even slowly dismantled their CDC response.

China was a bit slow to react, but when they had better idea what they were dealing with they went full on quarantine, no bullshit allowed. Some countries were pretty smart and fast and caught on before any WHO or Chinese response like Singapore, Vietnam, and Taiwan. They didn't wanna take any risk and this paid off.

SK could be faster like the other tiger counterparts and paid their price for it (even considering the sabotage of the cultists), but once they got wind of the damage, they act decisively. Numbers were scary and high, but in a couple of month we will realize those numbers will be peanuts. At least one lesson SK case taught us is how much damage just 1 infected person could do if unchecked. Their testing everyone no matter what paid off and should be a lesson.

Japan would be fine if they didn't have the burden of Olympic Games. Because of this attachment, their response has been wishy washy. It should be pretty easy for them to respond in this case, but their economy has been very attached to tourism and services. They did blunder with the cruiser as well.

Iran had the bad combination of suffering a possibility of war, weak government, sanctions, and very frightening lack of trust in science. Even if they tried to control information, their government can't do shit to hide their alarming situation. I think this was the first glimpse of how damaging a bad response can be and how easy a health care system can be overwhelmed.

With these in mind, I think I can concede some of slowness of response in the West and WHO. They don't wanna overreact even thou this was the proper answer for this kinda of virus. It wasn't enough information just yet. Things were happening too fast. However, with SK and Iran, it should be clear just 1 person not be detected (and lot of them left China during beginning of year) can be extremely damage. Even Singapore was a good lesson. They started "high", but they will end at the bottom when things clear up.

At this point I think they just chose economy over the well being of their people. Economy has been shaky in Europe due to Brexit and other factors, so they decided to be lax and wait for the symptoms. Then Italy happened. From that point when numbers were at 500ish it should be clear every place should close down their borders immediately and scramble for a SK style response. Canada and EU is acting very slowly and even after Italy trying to do a quarantine, they aren't following it with one themselves. At this point it's clear EU failed to lead. The ones in Europe that are ignoring the leader nations will be better off. Even with economy angle, I don't understand their response quite frankly.

Trump's response isn't surprising if you have half a brain and didn't drink the cool-aid. He is a charlatan and incompetent. This is over his head. Worse than that, his cabinet is full of buffoons and anti-science people. USA response seems to mimic Iran: leaders doing dumb shit like going to rallies and exposing themselves to risk and ignoring specialists. Even the Wall Street elite who would sell their mom for extra 0.001% profit don't have confidence from a proper response of this administration. In this case I wish governors could act by themselves and labs ignored the CDC. Still not many of them are responding with resolve. At this point USA is sabotaging any worldwide effort to combat this crisis.

Don't get me started with Brazil. The president is an asshole. God forbid if this thing is loose in these developing countries. Italy with top notch health care system can't handle it, image there. Also, their leadership can be shaky. El Salvador's leader did the right thing. Micronesia nations also did the right thing. Their economy are very dependent of the outside, still they are willing to make the sacrifice because you can't fuck with pandemics.

Now one thing is clear is the West doesn't have the industries for a fast response even if they wanted it. That's what happen when their corporations move to somewhere else for profits like China. Now they have to wait things clear up to get supplies from China. No stockpile for emergencies like that. Browsing old articles during the 2010s about possible pandemics and how to deal with them, it's clear the West just dismantled their abilities to respond swiftly. A stockpile of supplies would cost less than a war plane and this pandemic could be a higher national security.

Anyway, one lesson this pandemic should be is not ignore scientists and specialists warnings. How long ago was the first signs of climate change problems? 2030~2050 is around the corner. Even with such deadlines, response was either nothing or double down on idiocy.

I guess we are still a stupid intelligent species. It took two world wars to get an idea that maybe super powers shouldn't fight it out. Still the jury is still out on this one. You want an answer: it's because we are all stupid for electing stupid slow witted people.

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I feel sorry for my aunt and cousin in the United States, they even charge you the test of the coronavirus..... the health system it's apocalyptic there, you have to pay even to die; plus you have Trump who is an idiot of wich the entire world laughs at, you have the perfect storm, prepear for a massive plague there

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