I Just Want To Share What Is On My Mind
Covid-19 and the USA
I hope there aren't too many people out there with such blinkered knowledge as one out there. He seems unaware that the virus is already deep rooted in your country. And even if there are people who have yet to meet someone and breathe the same droplet inflected air, they soon will. It is likely that everyone will encounter this pandemic. I believe I actually had it myself just after the New Year, unknowingly of course. It can be mild. But it can also wipe out great swathes of society. It is possible to treat the symptoms with isolation and intensive care, but how many hospital beds do you have in the USA? Enough to care simultaneously with, let's be optimistic, only 5% of your population? I calculate that as 16.7 million people will become seriously infected requiring, if you're not careful, simultaneous treatment. Now, I know from personal experience that your health system ranks with the best in the world, if not the best. But, 16 million people in a short peaked bell curve? No, it can't. So, your only alternative is to lock down seriously by zones. This transfers just as easily at a soccer match or baseball game or children's birthday party. It is non discriminatory. If, as you suggest, New Orleans is a centre of social interaction, then yes, of course it too will suffer. So it, like everywhere else, must be locked down. And with minimal exception other than to support the health care machine trying to cope against an invisible tsunami. You must flatten the bell curve, now, and for months to come. The alternative is more stark than your understanding could comprehend.
One final point. This pandemic virus is bad enough without the potential exacerbation of civil unrest if people segregate parts of society off for whatever ill-considered blame and possibly homophobic prejudice. Simply not helpful and redirecting attention away from the simple fact that "we are ALL in the same boat, worldwide".
Please, do reconsider your dismissal of this virus as merely a sniveling cold. As good as the USA might be, it doesn't have 16 million coffins or graves. It will, like Iran, have to resort to mass pits and trenches.
I hope there aren't too many people out there with such blinkered knowledge as one out there. He seems unaware that the virus is already deep rooted in your country. And even if there are people who have yet to meet someone and breathe the same droplet inflected air, they soon will. It is likely that everyone will encounter this pandemic. I believe I actually had it myself just after the New Year, unknowingly of course. It can be mild. But it can also wipe out great swathes of society. It is possible to treat the symptoms with isolation and intensive care, but how many hospital beds do you have in the USA? Enough to care simultaneously with, let's be optimistic, only 5% of your population? I calculate that as 16.7 million people will become seriously infected requiring, if you're not careful, simultaneous treatment. Now, I know from personal experience that your health system ranks with the best in the world, if not the best. But, 16 million people in a short peaked bell curve? No, it can't. So, your only alternative is to lock down seriously by zones. This transfers just as easily at a soccer match or baseball game or children's birthday party. It is non discriminatory. If, as you suggest, New Orleans is a centre of social interaction, then yes, of course it too will suffer. So it, like everywhere else, must be locked down. And with minimal exception other than to support the health care machine trying to cope against an invisible tsunami. You must flatten the bell curve, now, and for months to come. The alternative is more stark than your understanding could comprehend.
One final point. This pandemic virus is bad enough without the potential exacerbation of civil unrest if people segregate parts of society off for whatever ill-considered blame and possibly homophobic prejudice. Simply not helpful and redirecting attention away from the simple fact that "we are ALL in the same boat, worldwide".
Please, do reconsider your dismissal of this virus as merely a sniveling cold. As good as the USA might be, it doesn't have 16 million coffins or graves. It will, like Iran, have to resort to mass pits and trenches.
