We are screwed.
Save your breath and the government doing anything. The time to stop all of this mess was about three weeks ago.
The CDC is run by fools. Hospitals are run by fools. The Congress and President don’t have a clue.
Yesterday the big hospitals in the area put out memos talking about their plan. What’s their plan? Don’t talk about it on social media.
It’s just the flu, dontcha know.
https://mobile.twitter.com/dailydigger19
Bunch of COVID-19 stories on the above twitter feed. Warning: contains disturbing image of Chinese man who hanged himself and fights.
Also has the insane flow chart. Someone decided to find out what a doctor does if simply someone walks in thinking they may be infected. It’s a government fustercluck at this point.
Thank God Trump suspended flights early. People are lying about having been tested clear (video above in one of the links) and where in China they visited.
Really, they don’t have any better options. Americans won’t accept China-style quarantines and half of Wuhan had already flown in and out of US airports before the threat was fully recognized. If we have major outbreaks of course Democrats are going to try to blame Trump - but their own stupid immigration policies left the door open and that fact will have be hung around their necks by every Republican office-holder.
Intelligent citizens have to prepare themselves.
3 weeks ago, the CDC and WHO were saying it was under control and there was low risk. H2H had not even started and everyone thought stopping flights from Wuhan would have been enough. 4 weeks ago were the first cases outside of China.
The testing problems were just last week.
I know this all feels like a lifetime in pandemic years, but I am not going to excoriate the administration for listening to the CDC/HHS/WHO 3 weeks ago.
However, last week was key, IMO. It was obvious the cat was out of the bag and our CDC was failing miserably. The president should have stayed home and taken care of business. He needs to up his communication game, people feel better with specifics not generalizations.
Here’s the deal. Singapore is doing the best job in the world, but they are just keeping their head above water. They are running 3 released for every new case, and if that holds good. But, it’s going to be touch, because it is a silent spreader. Even Israel who jumped out early and decisive, has had cases imported. Who would have known while everyone was looking at Asia that Italy would be seeding Europe?
The bottom line, even if President Trump did everything right, it’s still coming like a wave while we’re using brooms to try and sweep up the water on the shore.
I think healthcare wise it will be the worst thing most of us have seen in our lifetime. I think the markets will hit very low numbers if not crash. But I believe, unless Jesus comes back (and you’ll probably flame me for that one), I believe that the Us will rebuild.