The Government has made an ad about the Coronavirus and its surprisingly honest and informative 🌍🦠
👉 Spread the message not the virus: #FlattenTheCurve
👉 Spread the message not the virus: #FlattenTheCurve
I wasn't planning on making an Honest Government Ad about the Corona virus, I was already working on something else, but a few days ago it became glaringly obvious that we needed to make this video.
Because it's a shitshow...
Because it's a shitshow...
It's an unusual HGA: we take a break from counting the ways our Government is shit*, in order to *help* Govts communicate a vital public health announcement: #FlattenTheCurve
* (We made an exception for the US Govt whose shitfuckery is going to get a lot of people killed)...
* (We made an exception for the US Govt whose shitfuckery is going to get a lot of people killed)...
The Juice Media has a relatively large audience now and perhaps that's why I feel a sense of responsibility to use this platform to amplify important messages in times of need...
And the message that urgently requires amplifying right now is the need to #FlattentheCurve - meaning: slowing down the infection as much as possible to ensure our hospitals and healthcare staff can keep up and cope with the pressure...
It's critical to understand that an overwhelmed hospital system is fatal not just to Covid19 patients but to *anyone* requiring ICU care. Here's an excellent thread on the risk of systemic healthcare failure:
Here's a great article by @zeynep explaining Flattening the Curve: blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/p…
👉 All the latest facts and stats about Covid19: ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
👉 Fatality Rate figures: iiress.com/engine/doku.ph…
👉 AHA figures on expected cases in the US:
businessinsider.com.au/presentation-u…
👉 Fatality Rate figures: iiress.com/engine/doku.ph…
👉 AHA figures on expected cases in the US:
businessinsider.com.au/presentation-u…
And lastly some practical information about what you can do now: medium.com/@tomaspueyo/co…
🇦🇺👉 v. important update from a respected immunologist at Sydney's Westmeade hospital - this is where it's at with #coronavirus in Australia right now: the next 2 weeks are critical for us and will determine what happens next 
Lastly an observation: all the methods for addressing Coronavirus - take immediate action, come together, mobilise like in war time, suspend harmful behaviors, slow it down so we can cope - should be grafted word for word onto the discourse for addressing the #ClimateEmergency 🌏
