The Coronavirus

[Kinser79]

(05-18-2020, 11:38 PM)Mickey123 Wrote:

(05-18-2020, 06:15 AM)David Horn Wrote:  The shelter-in-place policy was intended to slow the spread, not eliminate it.  Places that moved fast, like South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, managed to use isolation to actually bring the virus as close to zero as possible, assuming no foreign traveler brings it back.  In the US, the primary focus was our healthcare system that was being overrun by new cases -- just like Italy.

And let's admit it: living in NYC or any other highly dense city, makes addressing a pandemic that infects so readily a nearly impossible goal to achieve.

The whole world woke up and realized that the shit was hitting the fan at about the same time.

The reason why Australia and New Zealand were able to stop the virus so effectively is that when everyone figured out what was going on, they had very few cases.  By this time, the U.S. already had far too many cases for containment to be possible.  In addition, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control completely fucked up and sent out non-working coronavirus test kits all over the country.  By the time everyone figured out they didn't work and sent them all back and managed to get new ones, the disease was already everywhere.

The U.S. didn't do anything wrong (other than the test kit screwup), it just has too many people and got hit too hard too fast.

Good luck convincing the "America Last" Blue Boomer crowd here of that.  But yes otherwise more or less accurate.