Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)
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Wuhan made two big mistakes after Jan 18. The first was the failure to prevent a hospital rush which resulted in mass cross-infections, it was sadly easily preventable had they only asked people to queue outside. The second mistake was the failure to collect and quarantine people with light symptoms. As a result family members were infected and light conditions were allowed to develop into serious condition.
The Japanese strategy tries to avoid the first mistake (no sure if it's going to suceed) but seems to be repeating the second.
I hope the Japanese authority can get its act together and figure out a plan to solve the second problem, else it may lead to a humanitarian crisis in Tokyo.
Meanwhile, the airfare prices from South Korea to a number of Chinese cities has increased up to 8 folds in the last two days. A lot of Chinese in South Korea (many Korean Chinese work or study there) are desperately trying to return to China. Chinese in Japan are also moving from posting on Weibo about escaping Japan to actually booking flights. Chinese authorities in major cities are making plans to quarantine arrivals from SK and Japan. I hope the returnees won't cause a second wave of infections.
The Japanese strategy tries to avoid the first mistake (no sure if it's going to suceed) but seems to be repeating the second.
I hope the Japanese authority can get its act together and figure out a plan to solve the second problem, else it may lead to a humanitarian crisis in Tokyo.
Meanwhile, the airfare prices from South Korea to a number of Chinese cities has increased up to 8 folds in the last two days. A lot of Chinese in South Korea (many Korean Chinese work or study there) are desperately trying to return to China. Chinese in Japan are also moving from posting on Weibo about escaping Japan to actually booking flights. Chinese authorities in major cities are making plans to quarantine arrivals from SK and Japan. I hope the returnees won't cause a second wave of infections.
I have confidence in Japan and Korea being able to handle a crisis, if it ever materialise just like China, all because of the discipline of it’s citizens have for the common good of the nation, not too sure about other industrialise countries but. Whatever happens Japan and Korea would have learned from the initial mistakes made in China.
As for the Chinese living in South Korea and Japan wanting to go home, now this is one thing you don’t see everyday. It is the equivalent of war refugees returning home, perhaps it is a sign these people have confidence in the Chinese authorities abilities in handling the epidemic.
The weather is warming up in the Northern hemisphere and if all these talk about the virus having a much shorter life span outside of it’s host is correct, this would soon be all over in the next couple of months. I am however fear for countries in the Southern Hemisphere where I live in one of them, as we race head on into winter and I know with much certainty, will not be able to cope and carry out the kind of necessary draconian measures to contain the Virus without fearing a political issue.
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solarz
Brigadier
Goddammit, what is it with people trying to run away from an epidemic? Stay home folks, it's where you'll be safest!
Jura The idiot
General
ironically, the banned account adiru predicted Feb 10, 2020
Xinhua| 2020-02-26 10:06:25
what could be close, based on
Xinhua| 2020-02-26 10:06:25
solarz
Brigadier
LOL, for once he had a perfectly good excuse to wear a mask, yet he somehow felt the need to wear a paper bag?
Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
Not only Y-20 but ARJ 21 also carry medics to Wuhan
As a pioneer of Chinese commercial airplanes, the ARJ21 aircraft was put into commercial service in June 2016. To date, the COMAC has delivered a total of 23 ARJ21 airplanes.
In the nationwide joint anti-epidemic fight, this Chinese civil airplane model is playing its role in emergency transport missions carrying personnel and supplies to support the virus-hit regions.
On Feb. 21, Chengdu Airlines sent a fleet of five airplanes, including four ARJ21 airplanes, to carry 231 medical staff from cities around southwest China's Sichuan Province to central China's Hubei Province, the epicenter of the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak, according to the airline.
As a pioneer of Chinese commercial airplanes, the ARJ21 aircraft was put into commercial service in June 2016. To date, the COMAC has delivered a total of 23 ARJ21 airplanes.
In the nationwide joint anti-epidemic fight, this Chinese civil airplane model is playing its role in emergency transport missions carrying personnel and supplies to support the virus-hit regions.
On Feb. 21, Chengdu Airlines sent a fleet of five airplanes, including four ARJ21 airplanes, to carry 231 medical staff from cities around southwest China's Sichuan Province to central China's Hubei Province, the epicenter of the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak, according to the airline.
The political systems of South Korea and Japan are very different. South Koreans are doing an amazing job, but the responses from Japanese government have so far been appalling.
Paywall:
About a week ago China donated 12,500 test kits to Japan.
A diplomatic way tell Japan that it should seriously start testing for the virus, but no Japan just refuse to test. So far less than 2,000 tested has been done in Japan (excluding Diamond Princess)