There is an article that compares the Italy means of handling vs. Hong Kong. HK was much more proactive Limiting travel, meetings, closing schools, so they have had a lot less cases and deaths. Kind of like St. Louis in 1918.
Italy was reactive from the start, and their situation is out of control.
Some believe letting it spread through your population unimpeded is better, it’s like ripping off a bandaid. It inoculates you’re population for the second wave. This means HK could be in for a much worse second wave.
However, the problem with the reactive approach is that they do not account for what it does to society as a whole, especially when healthcare breaks down. Long term I think the reactive approach (like the US is doing now) will cause much deeper economic ramifications than mitigating spread.
Good points, lil.
I just wish the public officials (of every country) would just come clean and say “This is our strategy, and this is why we are doing it this way.”
They may turn out to be right or wrong, but at least everybody would be reading from the same page.
Except I don't know if we know if it works that way. A lot of signs are pointing to "no".