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Journal by khallow
Sometime today, there will be more active, reported coronavirus cases outside of China than inside. The cat is out of the bag for sure. I think at this point, it's only a matter of time till a good portion of us catch the disease, barring a vaccine in the next few months. Good luck to you and your loved ones.
Moving on, this appears to me to be a real world test of various countries' public health systems, with such things as how accurate the above reports are, or how many people are infected or die due to this coronavirus.
Moving on, this appears to me to be a real world test of various countries' public health systems, with such things as how accurate the above reports are, or how many people are infected or die due to this coronavirus.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 09 2020, @05:27AM (1 child)
It's not corruption or healthcare that's the problem. China is generally seen as more corrupt than the US and also does not have nationalized healthcare, in spite of claiming to be communist. The problem, as always, is division. If China had US style social and political divisions, they'd have had an outbreak in the hundreds of millions. Instead it looks like they've mostly contained this with 100,000 cases in a country of 1,400,000,000. That's simply impressive.
Look at the US today and this virus is, ultra predictably, just becoming another tool for political division. We're becoming somewhat nihilistic in that we believe nothing matters, at all, except our own political viewpoints. It's not 'how can we solve this problem' but 'how can I further my political agenda with this problem.' There's even now this absurd ideology that if you're not actively engaging in politics then you're actually supporting some side or the other, as a sort of viral effort to consume everybody into this stupidity.
I think the long-term effects of this virus will probably be positive, even in the worst case scenario. Many nations are starting to head towards demographic collapse as fertility rates drop + people living far longer resulting an increasingly old and dependent population. The worst case scenario would see this issue completely resolved. The US is collapsing, but I think predictions of imminent collapse are hyperbolic. It's simply a gradual decline. It feels so similar to the collapse of the Roman Empire.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday March 09 2020, @12:44PM
Not to me. Seems much more similar to the collapse of the Roman Republic with the presence of populist politicians.