The main impact of this is not going to be medical, but economic. The US is able to handle what is essentially similar to a bad outbreak of the flu, and the population will cooperate voluntarily (basically in sanitation, such as wiping down surfaces, using hand sanitizer, etc. while the outbreak lasts).
But the real problem is not going to come from the US, but from the fact that we have been getting our goods from worst (but economically powerful) country in the world, that is, China. We even get our pharmaceuticals manufactured there!
So they will have a massive slowdown, everybody they supply will have a slowdown (they also have raw materials that they ship), and a global economy that has been built to rely on a slave-state whose slaves are too sick to work is going to have major problems.
The best thing Trump can do is get economic advisers in there.
My personal suggestion: Bring back production to the US, Canada and Mexico (now that we have a great trade pact), and make North America Great Again!
My personal suggestion: Bring back production to the US, Canada and Mexico (now that we have a great trade pact), and make North America Great Again!
YES...exactly what many of us have been SCREAMING, on the CV threads. Especially our Rx meds and med supplies.
I saw an interview, last night on Lou Dobbs, with Rosemary Gibson...she has been sounding the alarm for YEARS about how we’ve sold our most precious production...our MEDICINES and MEDICAL SUPPLIES, to China!
She projected that it would take several months - a year to get factories up and running, to begin producing these items, here.
I think your medical assessment is unrealistically optimistic and you aren’t factoring in a lot of variables. Yes we have better hygiene, yes we are a less densely populated country. But China can order people to stay locked in their homes, America can’t. Millions of American workers get zero sick time. On top of those people who are forced to go to work, our entire culture is built around being “tough” and going to work when sick. Americans go to work with the flu, and norovirus. Americans are PROUD of themselves for going to work while vomiting. The attitude of “It’s just a bad flu, for some people” is precisely what will facilitate its greater spread.