(05-05-2020, 12:29 PM)Thryleon date Wrote:Normally....They are implementing the lessons learned form SARS and MERS, so Flyboy77 is partially correct, what they are doing now is not like what they did in the past, because they were so so wrong in the past!
I'm 37 years old.
I've yet to live through anything like this. I'd wager most people 20 years my senior haven't either.
Quote:Evidence indicates that a modern approach to quarantine encompassing a range of options designed to reduce the frequency of social contact can significantly reduce the spread of infectious disease. Such options include short-term, voluntary home curfew; suspension or cancellation of public activities (such as events, mass transit, or access to public buildings); and “snow day” or sheltering-in-place measures. These measures could be employed individually or in concert. In addition to or in place of these strategies, a program of contact surveillance—the monitoring of asymptomatic persons exposed to an infectious disease—could be undertaken.This is an excerpt from a book published in 2004 called Learning from SARS, a book with multiple heavily qualified authors and fully peer reviewed by disease specialists. A reference manual they had available and studied at military academies all over the world as part of training for biological warfare. Yet for many weeks the USA, Britain and other countries failed to react due to stupidly thinking closing borders did something. It was a stupid of a reaction as building a wall to stop foreigners! They were guessing about what COVID-19 would be like, and in the end got it wrong paying a massive price that is nowhere yet near it's peak!
Copyright © 2004, National Academy of Sciences.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92465/
It's not a political tome written after the fact like much of the Twitter quoted rubbish floating around!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"