Posted on 05/11/2020 3:05:02 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
No new COVID-19 cases were reported yesterday, marking the 28th day with no domestic cases reported in the nation, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung said yesterday.
“Today is also Mother’s Day, so we would like to present our record of no domestic cases having been reported in 28 consecutive days as a gift for all mothers, hoping that everyone can feel safer,” said Chen, who heads the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
However, people should not let their guard down and should thoroughly practice the “new disease prevention lifestyle” to achieve an even higher level of safety, he said.
The number of confirmed cases in Taiwan remains at 440, of whom 366 have been removed from isolation after recovering, Chen said.
With the hard work of healthcare professionals, Taiwan has achieved an 83 percent recovery rate for COVID-19, compared with a global average of 34 percent, he said.
The death rate of COVID-19 in Taiwan is about 0.3 per million population, against a global average of 36 per million population, he added.
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Watch as 10s of millions of foreign invaders who hate them and really will destroy their freedoms, crowd their cities and make their lives unrecognizable - do nothing.
Makes perfect sense.
They also did force quarantines and shut entire cities down at that time
Quick, WHO! Send over emissaries to check this exaggeration. If some of those emissaries happen to be Covid-positive, all the better.
Thai food! - Yum! .....must eat more!
All those dying people must have hurt the economy. Herd immunity ultimately was what stopped it. Any recent outbreaks of Spanish Flu? Well, there you are.
WHO is not there and neither is Covid-19. Any correlation?
Can’t fire Fauci. Then you set him loose to brain fart in front of TV cameras. Bring Chen in as an expert, and instruct Fauci to consult with him in all things, and defer to him as much as possible.
WRONG. There was no “herd immunity” to Spanish Flu.
It faded away due to mitigation, without even a vaccine.
Did we go for “herd immunity” to smallpox? Polio?
Why not? THINK!
Yep.
“It faded away due to mitigation, without even a vaccine.”
Mitigation does not cause pandemics to fade away. It delays the spread to a level at which the health care system can cope. It faded away due to herd immunity, just as the Black Death of the 1300s did. The Spanish Flu was not effectively mitigated. The health care systems were swamped in the middle of a war and the demobbing of huge armies at the end of it.
It was estimated that between 17,000,000 and 50,000,000 died of the Spanish Flu out of an estimated 500,000,000 cases world wide. There were efforts at mitigation, but claiming that it “faded away” because of them is popycock, like saying a hurricane ended because you turned on a fan in your living room. Ultimately, herd immunity kicked in and ended the pandemic, which has not recurred since 1920. Mitigation helped in developed countries such as the US and England, but could not even be practiced in the third-world crap holes that get touched by a global pandemic.
Did we go for “herd immunity” to smallpox? Polio?
Why not? THINK!
1. Uh...because there were vaccines that finally rid the earth of them.
2. Because Polio never was a pandemic, just a debilitating affliction that crippled its occasional victims and turned them into flaming leftards like FDR and Justice Douglas.
You are wrong. 2/3 of the world’s population did NOT get infected with Spanish Flu, survive, and gain immunity.
Do a little research before spouting off.
The 1918-19 Spanish Influenza Pandemic and Vaccine Development
September 26, 2018
https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/blog/vaccine-development-spanish-flu
“First, the numbers. In 1918 the US population was 103.2 million. During the three waves of the Spanish Influenza pandemic between spring 1918 and spring 1919, about 200 of every 1000 people contracted influenza (about 20.6 million). Between 0.8% (164,800) and 3.1% (638,000) of those infected died from influenza or pneumonia secondary to it.”
So, with no vaccine, and no herd immunity, Spanish Flu faded out.
I would strongly suggest you read up on polio.especially the early 1950s..there were more than “occasional victims”.
First, you are counting only those afflicted with the virus in the US. The figure that I gave you was estimated broadly, because it was impossible to know how many died of Spanish Flu, let alone contracted it. So 17,000,000 to 50,000,000 out of 500,000,000 who contracted it is the best anyone can do. Can you say “mass graves,” class?
Second, you do not need 2/3 of the population to get infected to get herd immunity. Spanish Flu was not as virulent as the Black Death, and it’s debatable how big a chunk of the world population had to get infected with the Black Death in order to bring about herd immunity. In the 13th Century, hygiene was unspeakably bad, nobody knew that there was such a thing as viruses, and attributed contracting diseases to “miasmic humors”. They had no health care system to speak of, partly because medical practitioners ran the risk, if their patients died, of being lynched as a sorcerer, and those medical practitioners did not know much about medicine in the first place.
Let’s say that 2/3s of the world’s population contracted the Black Death and between 1/3 and 1/2 of the world population died of it. That does not prove one way or the other how many people have to contract the Spanish Flu in order to establish herd immunity, or even how many have to contract the Black Death to gain herd immunity. You have to also know how often a virus mutated, and how efficiently it was spread. Do you know how many rats infested London as opposed to Paris in the 13th Century? Or how many Crusaders returned to either city after the fall of the Christian colonies in the Middle East?
We do know that mitigation helped. Jews, who had relatively better hygiene than poor Christians at that time, contracted it less often, so were blamed as its instigators, and instead of dying of the plague died of the pogroms that ensued from not getting the plague. But from that tidbit we do know that keeping your home relatively safe from rats and mice will tend to make it harder to get the plague, just like not peeing in the gutter outside your door will help reduce your chances of getting typhus.
“More than occasional victims” does not equal “pandemic”. Polio had to be vanquished because of the severity of the affliction, not because it was sufficiently virulent to even be in the same league as a pandemic.
https://youtu.be/OMf_qLRjR1I
Taiwan has a really dense population so I have to wonder how they did it.
100% agree with you. I see China as the last lone Fascist state. I have to wonder about all the liberals that use to rally against child and exploitative labor as to why they give China a pass.
Two important things:
1. Taiwan knew in DecemberIt was human-to human transmissible, sent notification to WHO. The WHO threw it in the waste basket. But Taiwan prepared,
2. Taiwan president Tsai Ing-Wen spoke in favor of the Hong Kong protesters last Fall angering the CCP, who then tried to punish her and Taiwan by clamping down on travel between China and Taiwan, which, as it turns out, limited contact between infected people of Wuhan and the Taiwanese. Backfire!
Taiwan would have to close the borders to the world until a vaccine is invented or COVID-19 mutates out of existence.
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