Posted on 03/01/2020 11:02:59 AM PST by DouglasKC
just out of Yran
Ali Arouzi
@aliarouzi
#Iran’s health minister says that 300000 teams, including members of the Basij are going to be deployed nationwide to go from house to house to find people that may have contracted #CoronaVirus as Iran scrambles to deal with outbreak.
Most governments? Probably as an excuse to gather more power to themselves. Governments generally love crises.
ALL governments are taking this VERY seriously.
If Hospital beds ran out health Authorities would commandeer municipal halls/auditoriums for “Field” hospitals.
Why? The mortality rate is very high compared to the flu. Consider 4.5% in US and even higher in Italy. Consider the permanent damage. But probably because there is more to this than a super flu. China didn’t shut down the country and bulldoze roads for a simple flu. That’s a reality check on why to take this seriously and ask more about it all. Was the source the biological labs in Wuhan? Lots of questions...
“The truth is that governments all over the world are taking it very seriously.”
So, the conclusion is that the government is good and knowledgeable and doing the right thing when we know government is actually full of idiot left wingers who are reactionary to public consensus??
But only up to a certain size. Then those governments have to do something to handle the crises or lose credibility.
More generally, government love the promotion of crises above their actual severity, in order to steer the public in certain directions, to boost their esteem, and to (as you've pointed out) accrue power.
“ALL governments are taking this VERY seriously.”
All but one, it seems.
I'm sure they would. But it's not just beds. It's respirators, IV's, saline solution, medicines, doctors, nurses, etc etc etc...IF they want to treat them.
EVERY single government and government official on the face of the earth INCLUDING President Trump and VP Pence who are taking it just as seriously?
This post is worthless. You don’t say anything new, or useful.
A thoughtful attempt. I believe we will find medical treatment of some sort could be 10% of those that get infected, but hospitalization at 1% or less. We will see. I just am not that concerned in the grand scheme of things.
It sounds like they will infect the “teams” who will spread the infection all over the country.
Clever! ;-)
That's certainly a part of the equation. But the main problem is pointed out in the post.
“Some type of medical intervention...”
That does not mean hospitalization. It means you may have to go to a doc for some drugs to help knock down the bronchitis or pneumonia
The hysteria is over blown
I think you are exactly right.
And summer is coming which may help, but they have to slow it enough for warmer weather to start helping.
Every hotspot has to be contained.
I think it's useful to know WHY every government on the face of the earth has taken unprecedented steps to stop or contain the spread of the virus.
No the death rate isn’t high compared to the flu
When we actually get some verified numbers out of China,Iran,South Korea, Japan then we can talk
I think much of the fear is of the virus mutating.
In 2002 a southern China coronavirus mutated by the time it got to Canada. It became a lot more lethal but also a lot less transmittable, so it quickly petered out.
But what if the mutation increased transmission instead of decreased.
There will be so many of these viruses over hundreds of years, only a rare few will mutate into something terrible. Which one? Who knows.
Sure, this one probably won’t kill anything like a superflu, but there’s that rare chance it mutates into something worse than it is now.
I don’t see many people addressing this subject of mutation
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