Post by neoswiftie on Mar 22, 2020 8:07:43 GMT -5
The political propaganda in every country is mindblowing... If those in power, had acted when the virus spread in China or even after parts of China went in lockdown... THIS WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED!
The media should be smarter, and go after those that spread lies... even if the liars are the ones in power!
True, but WHO is one factor, once our governments knew about this, they should have tested EVERYONE (in januari) who had been in contact with or had been to those infected regions... in our case they waited 2 weeks (even here with big pharma research and production, there were NOT enough testkits once the virus was spread within the country itself).
They even allowed regular (with no testing) plane travel until mid Februari and even now, airports are still open for commercial flights, not just cargo...).
That didn't work out, so they had to take the next step... BTW here we knew almost immediately that they had 4 steps (test,contain spread/social distancing, closing all non essentials, lockdown).
The last step is already split up in lockdown light and complete lockdown, I guess at this point were in between those final steps.
From what I heard, Belgium can handle the amount of new patients for now, they "hope" that the numbers will go down, 2/3 weeks after the lockdown started (1 or 2 weeks to go).
Trump can blame China and we can blame the WHO, but it was a new strain of corona... no government would have believed or acted on a killer virus that would require a total lockdown, like we're seeing right now.
Hell, it took most countries 3/4 months before they did anything. Scientists/virologists were screaming from day1 that the longer we waited, the worse it would get.
Boris was just giving a statement, that the UK could face the same emergency as in Italy, seriously? Boris went for the herd immunity approach
What did he expect, that people were gonna stay home and die there?
This will end at one point but those in power should be held responsible for the way this was handled.
Politics/economy and the sort of "leaders" that are now in power have a lot to explain, when they knew and why they didn't tell us from the beginning.
The whole "but we had to prevent PANIC" the economy would have been impacted too much/ ...) explanation does not make any sense! NOW people panic, because they don't BELIEVE ANYTHING their great leaders say!!!
Lol I posted this tweet about Vancouver... no like/retweet or even comment.
STAY SAFE!