One of the most frustrating pieces of knowledge about COVID is that at world-wide 830k deaths already, and a curve that looks like this (knowing the slow decay), that deaths will surpass 1M in a 1-2 months This will make it one of the largest pandemics in modern history.
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Viruses for which there are no treatment cause death. Not every death is blamable on poor health policy.
I think of a country like New Zealand, which did everything it could and death still occurred. It's not right to blame all deaths on what leaders do.
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I think of a country like New Zealand, which did everything it could and death still occurred. It's not right to blame all deaths on what leaders do.
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But many countries and regions did not heed the basics of viral spread prevention:
* hand hygeine
* stop gatherings
* stay home
* support people who stay home
* contact trace
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* hand hygeine
* stop gatherings
* stay home
* support people who stay home
* contact trace
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And importantly, leaders such as Trump and Bolsonaro peddled conspiracies and anti-science ideas that led to significant and unnecessary death. There is literal blood on their hands, and they will likely never be held accountable.
That is my frustration.
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That is my frustration.
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People will say "but quarantines cause distress/death too!" and absolutely, we believe that to be true. But it's unavoidable to have death during a worldwide pandemic. It IS crucial to *minimize the death and destruction*.
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And even before this pandemic began, most economic and health data we had pointed to "control the virus" as the MOST effective way to save an economy and the health of people.
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We can now project with reasonable accuracy that there will be >1m deaths worldwide by the first week of October. And once again, history will look back and wonder why we didn't take the precaution more seriously.
