Posted on 04/01/2020 7:45:44 AM PDT by Olympiad Fisherman
While the Trump administration's Department of Health is forecasting some 200k or more deaths from the coronavirus scare and lots of hell over the next few weeks, here is the bell curve that South Korea has been sliding out of now since the middle of March as they are well on their way out of the virus scare. South Korea was also hit pretty good with this virus being right next door to China ...
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Wonder why businesses aren’t allowed to temperature check employees here? Got a temp, you go home..That’s what Assisted Living places are doing with their employees. (MILs Asst Living place is testing one person for Covid right now.)
Walmart is checking temps of its employees.
After this, it will be required probably by law, but could easily be done even at home - but yes, good point.
They also have a culture of strict compliance and almost absolute NO questioning of authority, even to teh point of death. See lesson learned from Korean Air crashes.
They aren’t multicultural.
Once you got the symptoms, its to late.
A person that is infected is spreading it ALL OVER THE GD PLACE before the symptoms show up.
So sending them home if they have the temp/symptoms, although the best thing to do, its already to late.
The best thing this government could have done was close the schools, old folks homes, no visitors to hospitals, etc, and leave the rest do what they recommended. Let the thing follow its natural course.
By the way, this isn't directed at you personally. I just get frustrated hearing that we did everything wrong and they did everything right. It is like comparing Sweden's economy to the USA economy.
So, things are a little bit different here.
So yes. I think there are things we can learn from South Korea. But the conditions here are drastically and dramatically different.
Agreed. See my post above. We have challenges that aren’t even in their universe.
The only thing negative they have that we don’t is a closer geographical proximity to China, but virus transmission mechanisms and ubiquitous air travel make that almost moot.
The best thing this government could have done was close the schools, old folks homes, no visitors to hospitals, etc, and leave the rest do what they recommended. Let the thing follow its natural course.
Monday morning quarterbacking aside:
Our government is full of people just like you and I. (With some exceptions) No smarter than anyone else. Perhaps their ego is hyperinflated, but no smarter. They can only think of what is best for them. Dr.s were all over the board with recommendations of what should be done. I can’t imagine trying to pick through all the noise of this thing and chart a plan. Thank God Trump is a smart man and kept a cool head even though Democrats could only focus on the phony impeachment at the time. We’ll get through this and look back and think it wasn’t as bad as we all thought.
It is discrimination against temperature challenged, I am sure ACLU is on top of it.
Last week, my husband’s barber checked temps (with one of those temperature guns) and then had the customer scrub down in hand sanitizer before they were allowed in the door. Seating was arranged for social distancing. I don’t think this will stop the asymptomatic 4 days before the symptoms hit, but it was something. The barbers also wore masks. Now that they’re classifying essential from non-essential business, I don’t know where barbers would fit into that.
Missing a couple of hair cuts in these times is no big deal, imo.
And I suspect the employers and public understand.
Know what Spud?
Maybe they should have gone back to the WW2 rules and start censoring on the internet like they did with mail back then.
WAY to much hysteria and misinformation out here.
Yes, I know, understood - but maybe some good news all the same.
I am all for any kind of good news, especially here on FR.
The backbiting is ferocious from all sides. But hey, we are largely individualists, not collectivists, so that isn’t all that surprising.
All eastern cultures do have this, but South Korea is perhaps the most free and democratic of all eastern Asian nations.
They did a specific test on people to see if they had the virus. Amazing they already had it and were able to do it. They were prepared.
While the CDC was busy fighting Climate Change.
And the infection curve would have looked like the faux hockey stick of globull warmng.
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