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Covid 19 virus
thinkfat:
Everyone will try to postpone drastic actions until they run out of other options. Nobody wants to risk their arse calling Wolf. Either way they will be roasted by media. For wasting money or lives.
SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: thinkfat on March 29, 2020, 02:48:05 pm ---Everyone will try to postpone drastic actions until they run out of other options. Nobody wants to risk their arse calling Wolf. Either way they will be roasted by media. For wasting money or lives.
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Agreed. This is a very tough kind of decision to make. And we have no sure way of predicting for sure how a given virus will act and spread until it has already done so significantly - by definition, acting early would be acting on non-significant data, which no one would really agree with. It's easy to agree with early actions when it's way past early. It's not when we have little inconclusive data.
Sure some countries have waited for too long even when we started to have significant data, but it's obvious we're always going to lag by a few weeks with viruses like this. Otherwise we would end up taking drastic measures every time people start sneezing in the streets.
Always easy to say what should have been done, rarely easy to say what should *be* done.
vodka:
--- Quote from: thinkfat on March 29, 2020, 02:48:05 pm ---Everyone will try to postpone drastic actions until they run out of other options. Nobody wants to risk their arse calling Wolf. Either way they will be roasted by media. For wasting money or lives.
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Here, if the goverment is the left-wing , the media always give them pomade, when the goverment is the right-wing give them sticks. Recently, all the culprit of the management of the COVID is by the Popular Party when they aren't in the goverment since 2018. Literally, give disgust to watch the TV, it seems goverment pamphlet to style of the NO-DO*.
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-Do
iMo:
I wonder how many fake PPEs governments are purchasing for big money..
https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/29/netherlands-recalls-hundreds-of-thousands-of-defective-chinese-face-masks
80% of test kits from China show false results
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3903937
dietert1:
I am lucky to live near the black forest in Germany. A river with green shores passes about 200m from our office and we can walk the dog for hours without meeting anybody. Absolutely no reason to complain. When i walk within our town for half an hour, i see 3 or 4 other persons, mostly walking dogs. Of course it depends on the weather.
In Serbia they are setting up "concentration camps" for those tested positive, because they already know people won't obey to any government orders.
Let's not stop breathing due to fear and don't eat to much..
Regards, Dieter
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