i’m not sure what the point is in your repeated attempts to apportion ‘blame’ and tut-tut at our global system.
a pandemic like this was a matter of time. epidemiologists were saying 5 years ago that the global system we have devised is not ready to cope with a novel disease.
it could have originated anywhere. your fantasies about people not foraging for bushmeat or industrialised nations giving up factory farming or leather production or whatever aren’t exactly realistic.
chinese medicine is an abomination for about half a dozen reasons but SARS/MERS both developed without any questionable human practices. the avian flu is extremely virulent and much more deadly than coronavirus and is only 1-2 mutations away from being human-host compatible at any given time.
european countries and the united states have bungled their own handling and containment phase at several different steps — there’s been a lot more to it than just closing all flights. early testing and quarantines were not effective. countries like the US have had poor federal direction and a lack of leadership, not to mention a systemic lack of funding and organisation. ditto the UK now finds itself without any ventilators or hospital resources, because we’ve been starving and whittling down our hospitals as part of a political decision-making process for 10 years.
the world was totally unprepared despite multiple warnings. you seem incapable of acknowledging that and festering over little revenge-retribution fantasies with china. ‘i wonder how we’re going to get payback when all this is said and done ...’. utterly pointless. as it stands, china have been at the forefront of sharing medical data. they are now sending huge amounts of aid to places like Italy (‘because it’s their fault!’ you cry vainly; no, because italy sent huge numbers of rescue teams and experts to china after their last devastating earthquake).
a pandemic like this was a matter of time. epidemiologists were saying 5 years ago that the global system we have devised is not ready to cope with a novel disease.
it could have originated anywhere. your fantasies about people not foraging for bushmeat or industrialised nations giving up factory farming or leather production or whatever aren’t exactly realistic.
chinese medicine is an abomination for about half a dozen reasons but SARS/MERS both developed without any questionable human practices. the avian flu is extremely virulent and much more deadly than coronavirus and is only 1-2 mutations away from being human-host compatible at any given time.
european countries and the united states have bungled their own handling and containment phase at several different steps — there’s been a lot more to it than just closing all flights. early testing and quarantines were not effective. countries like the US have had poor federal direction and a lack of leadership, not to mention a systemic lack of funding and organisation. ditto the UK now finds itself without any ventilators or hospital resources, because we’ve been starving and whittling down our hospitals as part of a political decision-making process for 10 years.
the world was totally unprepared despite multiple warnings. you seem incapable of acknowledging that and festering over little revenge-retribution fantasies with china. ‘i wonder how we’re going to get payback when all this is said and done ...’. utterly pointless. as it stands, china have been at the forefront of sharing medical data. they are now sending huge amounts of aid to places like Italy (‘because it’s their fault!’ you cry vainly; no, because italy sent huge numbers of rescue teams and experts to china after their last devastating earthquake).
Last edited by uziq (2020-03-16 03:06:39)
