Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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John2290 said:

KLXVER said:

Well when one country is making most of certain medical supplies for the entire world, it could be a disaster when that country is hit with an outbreak. We have managed threats over time. Its never just stomped out early. We never seem to see these things coming. Its never a matter of IF, its always a matter of WHEN. Yet we still act like theres never been one before. Im not very worried about the corona virus, but god help us all when a really bad virus is unleashed upon us.

This will show the flaws and we'll have plans next time, Perhaps this is a good thing in the scheme of thing cause if this was MERS or Ebole level numbers we wouldn't have a second chance to fix the holes in the system. It might bring Business back to western nations and decrease Chinas power and grip on the rest of us. A wake up call might have been what is needed, alas though, people were already turning to Nationalism and this is going to secure that to a more sever qnd dangerous degree. 

@KLXVER: With a bad virus like Sars or Ebola measures were fast taken because it was clear it was very deadly, with this one it wasn't, most hardly felt it.  That's why some goverments were rather reacting weak about the situation.
@John2290 The medical supplies are not the issue but rather countries being unprepared. Most countries only have a few hundred isolation rooms because they don't really need more and creating more would have been a waste for taxpapers money....Well except for now. Same with test kits, some african countries have 50K testkits and more while countries like Indonesia/the phillipines barely had 2000 for a population of + 100 million.