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haxxiy on 01 March 2020
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SvennoJ said:
haxxiy said:

Yeah, just like the healthcare system, most things are close to 100% efficiency with little overhead. Food gets dragged all over the world before it reaches your local store. It would be beneficial for local grown food, however here for example, Ontario depends on seasonal workers from Middle America for the harvest season. Travel restrictions will be hard on everything. Shortages of (some) goods can indeed easily happen.

I guess this will be a good wake up call to make the whole system more robust. 'Luckily' this virus is indeed not that bad. Most people will hardly be slowed down by it, but will still be worried sick over their family members.

Hmm it seems the statistics for the Diamond princess are getting lost in the rest. A lot of people have been flown back home and several have unfortunately died now (most recent one in Australia) yet they do not get counted towards the death toll for the Diamond princess. Actual death rate is still hard to tell.

The statistics for the Diamond Princess only include those being treated in Japan, nationals or foreigners. These 706 confirmed cases and 6 deaths also do not include 4 Japanese infected while working on the ship, and the people who tested positive upon their return home: 44 people in the US, 8 in Australia (including this man who've died), 4 in the UK, 4 in Hong Kong, 3 in Israel, and 2 in Japan.

Although... yeah, pneumonia takes a long time to heal (or potentially evolve to death), specially in the elderly, so that's why it lags. My 95 year old grandfather, for instance, has been in the hospital for a month already with pneumonia :/