(05-16-2020, 10:34 PM)Diana Wrote: The ineptitude of leadership, public health orgs and the whole lot of government agencies and bureaucracies is certainly evident. It boggles the mind.
it's interesting, if you look at graphs of how countries somewhat, as a whole reacted, yes that's evident. But it's interesting, when you look at all these curves of different countries, it's also, seen from close, a mosaic of different evolution, some countries interestingly did in fact react in a pretty prepared way such as South Korea and Germany. And they seemed to have done their job, tracking immediately from one person who showed early the sign of Covid to whom that person had had exchanges. You could say that at least there was some preparedness. And Germany had nearly above all else the best results and they are now soft opening but worried as they see signs of small peaks here and there of new cases. Still their number of death is incredibly low compared to other neighbors.
Interestingly both South Korea and Germany have a collective feeling of 'let's take good care of all of us'. Definitely a sense of a small nascent, or not nascent what do I know, SMC, probably same for South Korea ? Japan is another country where cases numbers and deaths are slightly different. And there again, this is a group which mentality is very much personal self effacing for the group. I am not talking politics here, not judging or praising. just observing as collective social behavior. And then there is Africa, but numbers could be disputed for lack of testing or lack of means for exact reporting but still it seems very far from the devastating Ebola, and Africa is a mosaic too but definitely the sense of belonging to a group, to a tribe, and inside help is definitely strong.
So yes this Covid is for sure an interesting thing in its evolution.
From Peregrine
Quote:Whether covid-19 was human generated on purpose or not, ever since the H1N1 virus a few years back the public health community has been acutely aware that a novel corona virus which is easily transmissible would emerge, sooner or later. Since that time, as is clearly evident, the public health and security staff responsible for preparing for such things have been disempowered. By whom? Why? I can't really say, but the disastrous state of our readiness gesticulates towards the utter vacuum of responsible leadership......worldwide.
one definitely has a feeling of that disempower thing, right ?
The utter chaos on many and the sudden loss of all apparent means of survival is, to say the least, pretty incredible. Strange strange year and sad