Posted on 03/10/2020 6:04:05 PM PDT by amorphous
Despite having had more time to prepare, most authorities in the US and EU are responding to the coronavirus spread with such ineffectual and wrong-minded measures that they're just making a terrible situation worse.
In today's video, Chris walks through the 'gold standard' process for how a country should act to contain a pandemic like this.
How many countries come anywhere close to this standard? Depressingly few. And he shows case after case after case of authorities -- at both the national and local levels -- pushing policies that endanger the public.
Why is the official response to such a serious threat so poor?
Human nature, fear, and self-delusion all seem to be playing an important role. Too many of our leaders refused to acknowledge the magnitude of the potential risk when this was "China's problem". And now that covid-19 is endemic in their own countries (99% of new infections now occur outside of China), it far too late for the preventative measures that would have made a difference if deployed earlier.
So everyone is scrambling. And few authorities seem to have a grasp on the situation, resulting a confused angry public who is increasingly realizing that It Didn't Have To Be This Way.
As we've been saying since our first reports on this virus, don't depend on the government to ride to your rescue here. Take your destiny into your own hands and prepare as best you can with the scant time likely left should the coronavirus appear in your community.
“You realize the reason Y2K wasn’t a disaster was because a lot of people worked millions of hours to avoid it right? If it was a non event for you...You are welcome. That’s what we were working for.”
100% true ... i was the Y2K planning leader at my corporation who helped convince upper management to make it a priority to devote the resources to fixing the problem at our corporation BEFORE it became a problem ... there were tens of thousands of us throughout the world beavering away to fix this thing so that it didn’t actually become the problem that so many predicted ...
He was OBVIOUSLY being facetious. Get a grip.
Good reason to not depend on the authorities.
Take care of protecting yourself.
Yes. Out of billions of people on planet earth that number is insignificant to be fueling the extreme measures, warnings and talk going on for weeks now.
However if it happens to be in your community, which it is in mine, it’s a little scary because 1. having the flu sucks and this is apparently more infectious. 2. It takes longer to recover-flu about a week this thing more like two. 3. Older people can catch it even from going shopping or to their doctor’s office, even if they got their flu shot, and they can die. I have old folks one with recent cancer.
Bottom line is China had whole cities under lock down and hospital beds for even mild cases. What would the rate of infection and CFR been like if they hadn’t? What could it be like here if we don’t take some measures? I don’t think we should freak out over it but I do see the potential for widespread problems if we don’t do the best we can to mitigate it.
I don’t get the whole bottled water thing. A virus is not going to shut down water supplies. Too posh to drink from the pipes get a filter pitcher for your fridge or install right at your sink. No need to drink it from plastic bottles if you’re hunkered down at home.
Get a grip yourself. There was nothing in the article about the President. It was a criticism about spoiled, incompetent bureaucrats.
The bottled water fallacy was instigated by many twits in popular, fictional TV productions and Internet stories from suburban prepsters over the past ten years.
I knew that the poster didn’t mean it. My point is that we are not going to lose an election because of the epidemic. The minds of most people are made up. We know where the increase in jobs and prosperity came from.
As for the disease, we should have remembered to prepare for the worst in advance without being late. And hope for the best.
This is getting too serious. I’m getting drowsy. I like your tagline, by the way.
The issue isn’t hysteria, it is taking the strong actions needed to slow and minimize its impact here at the same time that the required resources—ventilators and ICU capacity, for example—have been ramped up to meet the need.
Subsidizing cruise lines and encouraging anyone to get on cruise ships, by contrast, is not a great priority.
“The issue isn’t hysteria”
Actually that is exactly what is has become and the rats and MSM are using it to keep the economy on its knees.
I hope you are correct my FRiend.
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