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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 Tuesday March 10 2020, @01:47AM
He has at least two daughters, one of whom returned from Italy and was undergoing testing at the time to determine if she had the coronavirus. Pending the outcome of the test, doctors told the father and anyone else in the family to self-quarantine. Rather than do as the doctors asked, he defined the order and went to the dance with the other daughter. When he was there, he found out that the daughter who had been in Italy tested positive. He may have no symptoms at all and may not even have the virus, but we don't know for sure. When the doctors asked him to self-quarantine, he should have done so. I suspect he's not alone in defying the orders. It was reported that an individual in New Hampshire who tested positive also defied a request to self-quarantine.
There's a woman in Omaha who tested positive after returning from the UK. She went to a doctor and was told it was just a cold. She wasn't tested for eight days and may have exposed others. But from what I've heard, she genuinely didn't know and was failed by a lack of testing. Now, she's fighting for her life, in critical but stable condition. If she exposed others, it was because she didn't know and nobody asked her to self-quarantine. There are some pretty ugly things being said about her on social media, none of which is warranted. Our leaders failed her because she couldn't get tested.
My objection is with people who are asked to isolate themselves as a precaution, then knowingly defy the quarantine. That's what I'm calling selfish, because the father in Missouri was told to isolate himself and chose not to do so. I suspect that there are many other people who ignore quarantines, he just happened to get caught.
In China, one of the issues with controlling the virus was the massive amount of travel for the Lunar New Year celebrations. I work at a state university here in the US. On a smaller scale, we're about to have a large amount of travel across the country from students on spring break. Some students will be traveling to places where community spread is occurring. International travel is being discouraged by universities but very little is being said about domestic travel. Once the virus arrives at a university, it's all too easy for it to spread rapidly across campus and into the surrounding community. Until today, the university I work at hadn't shared their plans for dealing with an outbreak of the virus in the city or on campus. They've been scrambling over the past few days to even make plans, despite being well aware of the risk for a significantly longer period of time. I'm very concerned about what may happen over the next 3-4 weeks and that our leaders seem to be incompetent at many levels of government. It makes me angry. It's not about politics. I don't care what party, if any, you support. They've all failed us. We all deserve better.
Be well.