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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
Just another example of the ill-conceived response to the pandemic. More and More I've become a fan of the Swedish response---do nothing, mortality rate the same.
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As you obviously know, many management techniques were trialed in the past with varied results depending on the disease being managed. Doing 'nothing' was one of them and it worked in some pandemic outbreaks. The statistics for morbidity and mortality (not to mention business and economy) need to be weighed and a cogent decision needs to be implemented. There is a long history of us trying to figure it out. Check out this book for an interesting history of "Medicine" trying to do that:
John M. Barry
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Many of the scenarios will be far too familiar. We never learn.
My wife and I were in Disney in late Jan 2020 and were already aware of reports of illness in China. We both got sick on Jan 31st with me having shaking chills and fever to 103. We are suspicious that this was COVID-19 in hindsight. In March the office I worked in shut down and individually the staff went in to bring computers home. I have been home since working remotely.
My wife's colleague went home to visit family at the same time in Jan 2020. I remember debating them if she should go. The relatives lived in Wuhan. They decided to go anyway and were quarantined there for 6 months having missed the last 2 planes the US consolate set up to evacuate since the Chinese government shut down ground transportation (she and her daughter were US citizens).