Has Achieved Nirvana
| Why China was able to curtail the spread: quote:
As the new coronavirus spread rapidly in central China, the country’s authoritarian government took a very authoritarian step: It ordered the unprecedented lockdown of 60 million people in the hardest-hit province.
The shutdown of public transport in some cities, the closing of entertainment venues nationwide and a heavy dose of fear emptied the streets of the world’s most populous nation.
Now that the virus has reached every continent except Antarctica, with South America's first confirmed case this week, the World Health Organization is proposing a challenge for others: Be more like China.
Simply put, if a disease isn’t truly understood and there are no medicines or vaccines for it, then quarantine is the most effective way to curb its spread. And acting fast is crucial, as China learned, after its initial tepid response.
The question before the world is to what extent it can and wants to replicate China’s draconian methods.
“Few other countries have the ability to implement a lockdown at that scale,” said Dr. Raina Macintyre, a global biosecurity expert at the University of New South Wales in Australia.
In a democracy, a restriction of this magnitude "requires explaining a lot, why it is important,” said virologist Marion Koopmans of the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands. “But it is a common-sense thing that people can understand. Our grandparents taught us so. I remember being in human quarantine as a child, when I had mumps.”
https://japantoday.com/categor...can-learn-from-china
--------------------------------
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier
|
| | | Posts: 38223 | Location: Somewhere in the middle | Registered: 19 January 2010 | 
IP
|
|
(self-titled) semi-posting lurker
Minor Deity
| quote: The question before the world is to what extent it can and wants to replicate China’s draconian methods
This. I keep thinking about the conference I'm supposed to present at. I'm part of a four-person panel, so although each presentation is individual, I feel like I'd be causing them a lot of trouble if I didn't go. Also, it's kind of important for the program I'm part of here, etc. etc. So I don't think I will, or can really, decide not to attend on my own. (Oh, also, my hotel reservation is non-refundable, and I won't get reimbursed unless I attend... A minor detail ultimately, but a detail nonetheless.) But it's going to be a huge conference, with people from all over the US. The perfect place to pick up a bug. I really wish some higher authority would cancel it on our behalves... :P |
| | | Posts: 18860 | Location: not in Japan any more | Registered: 20 April 2005 |
IP
|
|
"I've got morons on my team."
Mitt Romney
Minor Deity
| quote: Originally posted by Nina: I'm not sure we can trust China's data. You're welcome. 
 |
| | | Posts: 12759 | Location: Williamsburg, VA | Registered: 19 July 2005 |
IP
|
|
Has Achieved Nirvana
| No way. |
| | |
Has Achieved Nirvana
| I’m not shocked they got the reproductive number below one. The restrictions in Hubei province have mostly not been lifted, though they been loosened elsewhere. I suspect they view the restrictions as a throttle that they can continue to use to keep the cases below the capacity of their medical system. I worry about our ability and willingness to do the same.
--------------------------------
If you think looting is bad wait until I tell you about civil forfeiture.
|
| | |
knitterati
Beatification Candidate
| quote: Originally posted by Nina: I'm not sure we can trust China's data. You're welcome.
Didn’t they change their criteria for what counted and what didn’t? CNN says they changed it 3 times. |
| | |
Has Achieved Nirvana
| quote: Originally posted by Nina: I'm not sure we can trust China's data. You're welcome.
 I saw an article (I wished I had bookmarked it) that they don't trust ours. Can't say as I blame them...our first tests didn't work and we've been letting people go from quarantine before (positive) test results come back....not exactly confidence-inspiring...
--------------------------------
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier
|
| | | Posts: 38223 | Location: Somewhere in the middle | Registered: 19 January 2010 |
IP
|
|
