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| Re: I'm so confused. I'm in my mind. -- eDrek | Top of thread | Post Reply | Forum |
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As far as I can tell a lot of those who are 'in the business' so to speak, medics etc, don't see eye to eye on what to do, so how can people like us make a judgement as to how we should proceed. We can't. However, I think after 2 months of incessant information absorbed, & looking at the political decisions made, there are a few things which have become a bit clearer. Clearer as to what's happened in the UK. I don't know enough about how the US govt machinery works to comment on that. Going back to 2005, as a response to the SARS outbreak of 2003, the WHO recommended all its member states to draw up plans to deal with a potential future epidemic. These plans take a long time to mature & are obviously expensive to do, so the British govt chose to incorporate that into the already existing & ongoing plans for a flu outbreak, rather than as a separate project. I believe the plan was finalised in 2014 & a test made in 2016. Then comes now, & regardless of what the lying bastards say about how they are responding to the crisis with up to the minute best decisions, what they did was take the old flu plan off the shelf, dust it off & shove it down our throats. Unfortunately this disease isn't the flu, for which a vaccine could be expected eventually. That's one of the key points. The plan required & assumed a vaccine for its success. Then the lockdown was imposed on advice from the flawed Imperial College computer model amongst others, which measure is set to pauperise millions with impossible to foresee consequences, but all of them ranging from bad to very bad. Does that mean that the lockdown hasn't worked...not exactly...what it means is this. The healthy population has been isolated whilst the infected have been introduced into the general hospital system. This insanity is the exact opposite of how untreatable infectious disease was dealt with before antibiotics. All the while the crisis has been wrapped in the flag, so anyone who disagrees with the way it's been handled is looked at a bit funny, as we say over here. You say.... at least 2,000 people in the US are dying everyday....& of course that's true, but the US is big. Epidemics are like forest fires. An outbreak in a particular place needs to be dealt with urgently, but somewhere else nothing is happening & life can go on as ever. I know that's a simplistic allusion, but it's the best I can do at the moment. We aren't getting any feedback at all from the rest of the world as to how to deal with this. Or rather we aren't being given the information, & the media aren't asking the questions, & especially aren't holding the politicians feet to the fire over why for example, Japan, has this so much more under control. That's because their system is based on localised decision making & lots of shoeleather to track,trace,& quarantine. In fact the very old fashioned & no doubt uneconomical methods they adopted in the 1930s on the advice of American experts in public health,& never upgraded. That's an irony right there to ponder on. We can't know whether or not the virus will take off again, we can only hope it doesn't. If it does though, I think a second lockdown will be unenforcable. The future just became even more impossible to predict than usual. There's nothing wrong with you, but something mighty wrong with public policy when people who are seriously ill want to avoid going to hospital for fear of something worse. Anyway, give the geezers a chance is what I say... 
Related link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BGYuH9Vxc4&list=RD-p6zx1lDVoU&index=16 |
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