Quote Originally Posted by retrospect View Post
EVERY ONE should be staying home except for essential purposes. All venues where people gather should shut. We don't have the capacity to treat enough people. We don't have the capacity the test enough people. Our count of infected is lagging because we can't keep up with demand. Those who are infected today will present to hospital in about 12 days on average. The numbers are doubling every 2 to 3 days. We have 2000 ICU beds in the whole country. Total capacity, not spare capacity. The economic modelling is wrong. They are counting public panic as a cost of taking action. It is a cost of the epidemic and will be worse without action. Some countries understand this. Some would rather be rich than alive.

Well said, it's now all up to the respective government/leaders to manage their country's own fate ! Leaders who have the foresight/guts to implement immediate and more drastic measures/actions will be rightfully rewarded with less infections in their own domain !!

If the figures coming out of China is reliable, then the outbreak in China and HuBei should have been plateaued ?

In a more promising view, the numbers in S Korea and Japan have also seemed to be more steady in the past week sitting around 8,000 and 800 something respectively without the rapid rising like weeks before. So there may still be an Olympic happening in July, whether Japan will let everyone except the athletes and officials into the country would be anyone's guess. I don't understand why Morrison didn't go all the way in terms of shutting down the country for two weeks. Wait and see any longer will just make the matter worst.

The Chinese government media is now praising themselves in locking down HuHan and contained the outbreak. and think the world should thank them. As according to the Chinese propaganda, if they had delayed the lockdown for another week. The infected numbers now could be 3 times highers. However, the immediate response from some medical experts was that if China had actioned the lockdown a week earlier, the numbers would have been only one third of what it is now today (meaning 25K instead of 80K! ). take your pick.

So, should we do everything we can NOW ? or wait another week or two until our numbers exploded to thousands like Europe - then do the shut down when it could be all bloody toooooo late ??