COVID-19/Coronavirus MEGATHREAD

Some of the claims about China being passed around on Reddit are coming from questionable sources that pander to sensationalism. And most of Reddit is incapable of doing basic open source intelligence or critical thinking.

Singapore and South Korea never shut down their country as drastically as China did which means new infections are inevitable, but they managed to build the sufficient infrastructure to keep the spread of infection and deaths minimal. Survival rate for the virus is higher than Ebola on the condition of proper medical care, the earlier the better. In China, the problem as they discovered was that it was a race between building up infrastructure and exponential growth when enough people were infected to overwhelm the ability of hospitals to provide sufficient care. And China shut down when confirmed cases were still in the hundreds, and the shut-down was uniformed and drastic enough to slow down the spread until the virus was brought to a manageable level.

The problem for America is the lack of a coordinated effort to combat the virus. If everyone simultaneously shut down for two to three weeks, the virus would pretty much be dealt with and brought under control with less avenues to spread. California shut down early which is why the amount of deaths there are minimal where I live, but other states aren't. As a result, the spread will continue on for months until until a vaccine is discovered. The pandemic is failure of not just national leadership in various countries, but a failure of in the lack international cooperation.

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