This is a drill
Well, an unintentional drill, but just as useful.
As much as I believe there has been a major over-reaction about the coronavirus, (considering it's relative low fatality rate of around 2% and 4% and the fact that reportedly most cases are "mild"), the fact is that this whole thing has being perfect to test what measures work and don't work on the global and national levels. If COVID-19 had the original fatality rate it was feared (between 15% and 35%, considering the fatality rates of COVID-19's "first cousins", SARS and MERS) then things by now would have been really bleak. I'm sure that lessons are being learned and I hope that by the time a truly serious pandemic happens, governments will have effective contingency plans in place, having learned from the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic...
As much as I believe there has been a major over-reaction about the coronavirus, (considering it's relative low fatality rate of around 2% and 4% and the fact that reportedly most cases are "mild"), the fact is that this whole thing has being perfect to test what measures work and don't work on the global and national levels. If COVID-19 had the original fatality rate it was feared (between 15% and 35%, considering the fatality rates of COVID-19's "first cousins", SARS and MERS) then things by now would have been really bleak. I'm sure that lessons are being learned and I hope that by the time a truly serious pandemic happens, governments will have effective contingency plans in place, having learned from the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic...
