Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[EricHiggin]

SvennoJ said:

This indecisiveness is exactly what's making it worse. If everyone does there part it could be contained within a month, then with accurate tracking and tracing we could start 'living' again. South Korea is doing it! I don't know what area you're in but here there is only one real hospital close with had 4 out of 9 ICU beds available and are currently in use to ventilate covid19 patients. The hospitals in bigger cities further away are also dealing with the covid19 outbreak. Sedatives and pain killers are running out. https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/painkillers-and-sedatives-may-reach-critical-shortage-emergency-physicians-group-1.4895462 We're barely hanging on with the current extreme measures in place where basically everyone has to self isolate.

I've read people have been tested for anti bodies and the tests turned out to be wrong, identifying the wrong anti bodies or simply generating false positives. I've also read that minimal anti bodies from minimal exposure doesn't mean you'll be immune for heavier exposure. If you're going to let it run through the younger population, you'll get a much bigger virus load from all different angles. I've also read about the virus re-activating again in some people, making them contagious again etc.

I was wrong in my 2 month assessment though, it won't pass through that fast, at least 3 months, then another month for hopefully most people to recover. There are still 60+ active cases from the Diamond Princess since the start of Februari. Of course you also pretty much disrupt your essential workforce for months by letting it eat its way through it.

This is a time to listen to the experts and the scientists or things will get much worse. It can be contained, it's up to the people how well we get through this. Which is the biggest problem :/

It's probably not worth getting into a back an forth beyond this because it will just go on. Many details aren't consistent and maybe because that's legit how the illness widely impacts people perhaps, along with plenty of unknowns yet.

The issue with your final statement though, is that the experts themselves don't seem to agree on a wide scale, and each country is deciding to handle things differently. What are people worldwide supposed to make of that? Clearly either some the experts are wrong, or the leadership is, or possibly both. There is a glaring problem when this is a now a worldwide dilemma, and everyone is handling it differently. How can you expect people to simply obey when the solution clearly isn't obvious. To add to that, while a complete lock down does seem to make sense from an immediate laser focused life saving measures viewpoint, the world is a much more complex place than just that, and the future needs to be taken seriously as well, even for the same reasons.

It's a conundrum it is.