Posted December 19, 2020
China was at fault for coronavirus, even if we assume it was some natural occurrence. They've admitting putting certain areas under quarantine but not keeping the airports in those areas closed. In other words, they knew exactly what they were doing.
But if you touched covid topic - one thing is clear about it is that governments of pretty much whole world weren't ready for any kind of pandemic. AT ALL.
In fact many countries were saving money by cutting funds on disease control and specialized hospitals. Con-fucking-gratulations to them for the unlocked achievement on a new Great Depression on a global scale. When it was clear that that it started to spread across the borders what they did? Nothing. They were afraid that 50 days lockdown will hurt economy, "muh tourists..." Congrats. Instead of losing maybe 2-3 billions they lost much more.
Because it's disease control 101 - you have oubreak? Go for full lockdown in affected areas. Disease is spreading across the borders? Close the borders. A month, worst case scenario 3 and poof, no more disease. Because that's how you prevent large scale epidemic/pandemic - by not letting people to roam freely and spread disease. When they finally decided to go for lockdowns it was too late. And no emergency supply of masks and suits, not some very expensive hazmat suits, just very basic ones? Well played for sure. I remember when it all started countries were literally stealing cargo of medical supplies for other countries. I was facepalming for days looking at all that lunacy.
Every single moment some tourist from Africa can bring something new. Every single moment a virus that animals carry can mutate and start to infect people. It can literally happen again in a month. Maybe next time it will be rotavirus and there will be global shortage of diapers. Speaking of which - well played, toilet paper makers - making sheeple to buy more toilet paper in a month than they bought since 1960 was fucking brilliant.
The kicker is, we did that for everything, including africa, but not China. China got a special exception. Some states were under a "lockdown" but the exceptions were precisely how COVID spreads, anyway. In America and Italy, we had "hug a chinese person" compaigns, because the Chine--World Health Organisation said it was fine, that it came from bat soup, no human-to-human transmission, and Donald Trump trying to close the damn border, especially from China, was "fucking racist." Unfortunately, most people anymore have short memory spans. In fact many countries were saving money by cutting funds on disease control and specialized hospitals. Con-fucking-gratulations to them for the unlocked achievement on a new Great Depression on a global scale. When it was clear that that it started to spread across the borders what they did? Nothing. They were afraid that 50 days lockdown will hurt economy, "muh tourists..." Congrats. Instead of losing maybe 2-3 billions they lost much more.
Because it's disease control 101 - you have oubreak? Go for full lockdown in affected areas. Disease is spreading across the borders? Close the borders. A month, worst case scenario 3 and poof, no more disease. Because that's how you prevent large scale epidemic/pandemic - by not letting people to roam freely and spread disease. When they finally decided to go for lockdowns it was too late. And no emergency supply of masks and suits, not some very expensive hazmat suits, just very basic ones? Well played for sure. I remember when it all started countries were literally stealing cargo of medical supplies for other countries. I was facepalming for days looking at all that lunacy.
Every single moment some tourist from Africa can bring something new. Every single moment a virus that animals carry can mutate and start to infect people. It can literally happen again in a month. Maybe next time it will be rotavirus and there will be global shortage of diapers. Speaking of which - well played, toilet paper makers - making sheeple to buy more toilet paper in a month than they bought since 1960 was fucking brilliant.
So not being ready for that, not having emergency supplies of stuff that's super cheap and can sit in storage for at least 20 years without going bad. No standard procedure for the situation. That's almost Idiocracy level of stupidity.
And all that petty vaccine bickering instead of joining forces in developing one ASAP. Big farma being the usual self.
That was the Almighty Dollar speaking, there. JIT is the flavor of the day in industry environments, I assume cause it showed so much progress in comp-sci. And all that petty vaccine bickering instead of joining forces in developing one ASAP. Big farma being the usual self.
"Covid dissidents" aka uneducated dumbwits with a mindset of 6yo kids, more dumb than flat earthers didn't help either. "Masks have holes much bigger than virus, they don't help" - idiots don't know that mask is supposed to prevent liquids from your body that carry the virus, like saliva when you cough from flying to other person and they slighly reduce the chance of it landing right in your mouth or nose when someone else will cough or sneeze. It's not something that can magically prevent you from getting infected but it can greatly reduce the chance.
They were told, but the west on the whole is largely thinking of #1, first, even over their own damn families. The amount of posturing i see every time someone i know gets Kung Flu is astounding. And then if all that wasn't enough as soon as first wave was over they opened everything and started a lot of public events. Then surprised pikachu faces when second wave hits like a freight train. Now imagine if it was outbreak of something really deadly, like i dunno... new, highly contagious strain of measles. At the end of the first month, the world's largest superpower would have been an island with population of 10000.
I said the same thing every year with Influenza. The thing is, this actually is more dangerous than Influenza, however it's nowhere near as dangerous as Ebola, and look back to see how the US handled that differently. Hell, SARS-CoV(-1) was handled way, way better. It's dangerous enough to use as a political issue, which is precisely what happened and how it will hopefully be remembered: the disease that was more importnat politically than the average person's life.
