A new tweet from @CGTNOfficial China Global Television Network, or CGTN, is a multi-language, multi-platform media grouping. reports
#BREAKING#China reports 34 #COVID19 infections on Wednesday, all are cases that originated abroad, with 8 more deaths
Chinese mainland reports zero new domestically transmitted #COVID19 cases
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 21 2020, @09:55AM
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by Anonymous Coward
on Saturday March 21 2020, @09:55AM (#973772)
OP here. Flattening the curve I've accepted as a valid strategy to avoid overwhelming the health care system. Most of the population will get this virus, its unavoidable. All we can do is ensure there may be a hospital bed for us in case we're one of the few that get critical when we get it.
Of course. Flattening the curve is about all that can be done in the short term, especially in the countries that lack medical infrastructure.
It doesn't help that in some countries rather than manning up [salon.com] and running the nation those that have wormed their way into office use their position only for personal gain [jacobinmag.com]. Dealing with them will be a necessary precursor to any longer term solutions. Longer term, individual nations need to (re-)invest in infrastructure including health care. However, most, especially the CCP and the GOP, have turned the disaster into a politcal show, ignoring reality at every turn, and attacking those that call out the emporer for having no clothes.
-- Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
That's where flattening the curve comes in. By slowing it's progress, the hope is that we won't have that many in need of the limited resources at the same time.
Another useful feature is that the slower it goes, the more time we have to investigate a few promising treatments that could significantly reduce the number of people who get sick enough to need the ICU.
> Most of the population will get this virus, its unavoidable.
I've thought that too. And I think govt. / health officials see that as happening.
It's all about time and timeline. If the disease spread can be slowed enough, the healthcare system is less overwhelmed and can handle the quantity of active cases. They call it "flattening the curve".
In Italy people are dying who might have survived if there were more hospital beds, respirators, workers, etc., available.
What I'm wondering about China: 1) I surely don't trust anything they're telling us. But 2) maybe essentially everyone in China has gotten COVID-19 and are either dead or over it now.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 21 2020, @09:55AM (5 children)
OP here. Flattening the curve I've accepted as a valid strategy to avoid overwhelming the health care system. Most of the population will get this virus, its unavoidable. All we can do is ensure there may be a hospital bed for us in case we're one of the few that get critical when we get it.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by canopic jug on Saturday March 21 2020, @10:04AM (1 child)
Of course. Flattening the curve is about all that can be done in the short term, especially in the countries that lack medical infrastructure.
It doesn't help that in some countries rather than manning up [salon.com] and running the nation those that have wormed their way into office use their position only for personal gain [jacobinmag.com]. Dealing with them will be a necessary precursor to any longer term solutions. Longer term, individual nations need to (re-)invest in infrastructure including health care. However, most, especially the CCP and the GOP, have turned the disaster into a politcal show, ignoring reality at every turn, and attacking those that call out the emporer for having no clothes.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 21 2020, @08:47PM
> ...attacking those that call out the emporer for having no clothes.
I don't want to see the orange one naked, anything but that.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 21 2020, @02:26PM (1 child)
Good luck with that. And by few you mean 10-20% of the population. So only 30,000,000 to 60,000,000 Americans. Just a few.
(Score: 3, Informative) by sjames on Saturday March 21 2020, @09:42PM
That's where flattening the curve comes in. By slowing it's progress, the hope is that we won't have that many in need of the limited resources at the same time.
Another useful feature is that the slower it goes, the more time we have to investigate a few promising treatments that could significantly reduce the number of people who get sick enough to need the ICU.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday March 21 2020, @05:15PM
> Most of the population will get this virus, its unavoidable.
I've thought that too. And I think govt. / health officials see that as happening.
It's all about time and timeline. If the disease spread can be slowed enough, the healthcare system is less overwhelmed and can handle the quantity of active cases. They call it "flattening the curve".
In Italy people are dying who might have survived if there were more hospital beds, respirators, workers, etc., available.
What I'm wondering about China: 1) I surely don't trust anything they're telling us. But 2) maybe essentially everyone in China has gotten COVID-19 and are either dead or over it now.