Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Trumpstyle]

Pemalite said:

Trumpstyle said:

So countries like Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, S. Korea, Taiwan, New Zealand and Australia never did a good job containing the virus as the international media has been saying, the virus hit them in ~February.

Meanwhile it hit several EU countries and New york State already back in Oct/Nov. But we never saw it intill it exploded in march.

The first COVID case was identified in Australia on January the 25th from an individual who came back on the 19th of January... WHO didn't declare it as an outbreak until the 30th of January.

We started to "screen" incoming travelers on the 23rd of January, with information packs given to all travelers about the virus and what to do if they show symptoms.

So Australia was already taking action before the World-Health Organisation started to make any movements.

The first COVID death didn't occur in Australia until the 1st of March, by then we had already activated the emergency sector health plan and various emergency services were stepping up to take on the problem by stockpiling PPE, training and so on to assist the Ambulance and various health organizations.

The ball was rolling to tackle COVID here well and truly in advance before we initiated lockdown measures.

We were successful at halting the spread through a world-class health system, appropriate dissemination of information and advice from trusted resources and quick and decisive action from government that people adhered to.

Yes you guys starting screening folks in late Jan, what would happen if the virus hit your country already back in Oct/NOV? Sweden was in that military world games, New zealand and Australia was not. But I notice S. Korea, Thailand, Vietnam were in that game, but not the other countries I mention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Military_World_Games