Many events and places of concentration of people had to be prohibited from the beginning, which was not done.
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The biggest Problems in Pandemic repsone, apart from those mentioned above, have been:
- underestimating/downplaying the thing ;
- not being on the ball from FIRST domestic case on ;
Not being on the ball means failing to do the most important things when first domestic case popped up :
- testing ;
- contacttracing ;
- isolating ;
- quarantine ;
The above are not my opinions .
No amount of blameshifting will change the utter and extreme failure too many nations who had ALL the expertise, knowledge readily at their hands prooved to be . The lack of testing to the point where some even thought herdimmunity would help is only one indicator for this . I mean really, on these Forums, less than 2 weeks ago, when that thing already ran rampant around the world, people in here still advocated for "letting the Virus do its thing" . Look at where the USA are today...any more doubt that "just let it do its thing" was the stupidest suggestion ever ?
EVERY ONE of the now really hard hit "First World" Nations had the Chance to do the right thing, from FIRST domestic case on . Too many chose to not do that . Some of the most apparent reasons were notions of "fearmongering", or "economy" .
I think it was Ian Skippy who pointed out a few pages ago how SARS -CoV -2 is not even a particularily dangerous Virus, it being a 2/2 Virus . He also mentioned that, when you get to a 6/6, the entire globe is devoid of human population in a few weeks .
When a new Virus is discovered, and nothing or not much is really known about it, imagine being a Virologist knowing that
a) it could turn out to be REALLY BAD, or worse, could probably mutate into something really bad ; and
b) the WORSE, the shorter the timespan before gazillions of people die ;
I this light, one may probably start to be able to understand all the "fearmongering" . As well as one may understand the very immediate call for VERY drastic measures ( lockdowns ). Because time has been ticking, and in the absence of medicine/vaccine, the MOST important thing that has to bo done is to
slow the Spread .
How can we slow spread ?
- testing ;
- contacttracing ;
- isolating ;
- quarantine ;
The above are not my opinions
Still, SO many people do not understand even the most basic things about this. This simply shows the incapability of staring the immediate threat right into the eye . People are and were not able to bite down the possibility of millions of people dieing ( which DID, and still does, exist ) . Hence all the denial .
And remember, we are lucky to be let off easy . If this had turned out to be a really nasty one...only weeks....
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