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Again, I'll admit that I'm not the most intelligent person in the world.....but how can anyone compare what SK and Germany can do compared to what we can do.
South Korea is about the land mass size of Indiana and Germany is about the size of New Mexico.
The US is huge, diverse and used to more freedom than most anyone in the world is accustomed to
Honest question? How could testing have been better in such a short amount of time? Is that not a somewhat unrealistic question.
South Korea didn't institute a shutdown.
While that's true, freedom doesn't have a lot to do with testing. And in large parts, their responses hinged on testing.
Like you said, S. Korea's about the size of Indiana. But there's no reason w/ the resources, minds, and infrastructure we have, that Indiana couldn't have had as good of a response as S. Korea. Same goes for Michigan. Or Georgia. Or New York. Or any state, really.
The thing is, it wasn't that short of an amount of time. These countries kicked developing testing capacities into overdrive in January. By the time it hit us, you're right, it was too late.
But the point I'm trying to make is that testing was always going to be the best weapon we had against this, and we dropped the ball initially by not taking drastic actions to develop that capacity in January.
The point of the lockdowns, at least as I see it, is to slow the virus down enough to fix our testing problems so that we can open the economy again. Because if we open it and don't have the capacity to test, we're going to go right back in to lockdown.
Actually, after looking at it, Germany did shut down for a short period. They just stayed open longer, and are opening sooner than most other countries. Sorry on that misinfo.
Well.....I don't see it. We'll all believe what we choose to believe.
I'm about to be banned anyway for saying it's political so I should probably just move to a different thread.
You shouldn't be banned. Not at all. We should be allowed to talk about the largest global crisis of our lifetimes... Please mods in your infinite wisdom let this thread live.
you're not worse than some others we have around here
One thing I hope this pandemic accomplishes is to bring manufacturing of what we need back to the US as much as possible.
I'm not a Georgia resident, so interested to hear what residents on this board feel about Gov. Kemp's decision to allow fitness centers, bowling alleys, body art studios, barbers, hair and nail salons, and massage therapy businesses to eopen as early Friday?
Doesn't say how big the roll needs to be. 🤣
I would prefer another state “storms the beach” and we learn from their failures and successes, but here we go. That said, I won’t be going to any of those establishments and will stay hunkered down for the foreseeable future. My hope is that our medical community teams with the political leaders for a thoughtful and effective reopening.
With cases rising; smh. I posted several days ago that my concern was Fl, Ga and TX. 🤞
Living 15 minutes from S Ga this is going to be a problem