• They’ve been told to expect upwards of a quarter of a million fatalities, and 10 times that in medical care.

    Hold on. Who has told them this and on what basis?

    Not disputing what you're saying, I'd just like to know the source.

    If that is the future scenario, why are we not seeing deaths in China? Are they really so much better at social distancing?

  • China had SARS, which never reached the west, and that killed so many people they developed serious protocols for dealing with it. People with a fever where sent to a special fever triage clinic, and those with CV sent on to a specially built hospital, rather than back to their house to infect their family. What really fucked the Chinese was the long incubation period, so they developed the system of phone tracking and colour coded QR stamps to show if people were at risk. Seems unlikely the west is going to be doing this level of disease prevention anytime soon

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