| serialk11r |
03-16-2020 10:49 PM |
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Originally Posted by Atmo
(Post 3309425)
Is it really that simple?
Anecdotally, my expat cousin in Rome says their high death rate is due to a shortage of ICU beds, doctors who are becoming increasingly infected, skilled nurses, and a lack of invasive ventilators key to survival of those most critical. Not to mention the delay in closing their borders.
The US on average (not sure about NYC) is ahead in all of those areas per capita unless you watch mainstream media talking heads who know more about makeup and hair than medicine.
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It's not, the US has lower population density so you'd expect slower transmission and now that most people are not treating it as a joke anymore, we'll probably see the peak in a few weeks. For now, the doctors aren't getting sick, but the reports about shortages of protective gear are not promising.
I'm in NYC, and I fully believe it will be just as bad if not worse here, because until everything was shut down yesterday, morons were still going to bars and clubs...:slap:
The borders were shut to travelers from China at a pretty good time, but they really should've shut them to all affected areas as it progressed and had some kind of screening at the least (as of 2-3 days ago, someone I knew just walked right in from Japan through the airport with no screening, and a week ago people were still walking right through the airport from Italy with no screening). If the stories I heard about the quarantined people from cruise ships and such were true (unprotected personnel interacting with infected passengers), then whoever was handling the situation in California totally f***ed up and probably is responsible for a large number of the cases there.
The bureaucracy and medical industry in the US make it very hard to respond to this effectively but man people had their heads buried in the sand for 8 freaking weeks and were just running around transmitting the disease. Thanks to said low population density, I think only the largest cities will have it bad, but it's going to be really bad. |
