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Originally Posted by 6793026
I'm just as guity, 30 days ago... whatever China... won't happen to me... now it's like.. wtf... state of emergency, delivery only....
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The lesson of this should be - listen to ACTUAL experts. Ignore the TV doctors, ignore the politicians. There are people who devote their lives to dealing with this shit, and have been for DECADES.
It's what I did, and that's why I've been trying to warn you guys for 2 months now. I've been through this with SARS, so I knew what to look and where to look. I know what the CCP does. Like legitimately they are evil. Look at the history of this thread, I said there was NO way this would be contained, and no way this wouldn't be a very serious pandemic. At least half the world infected, whole cities shut down, thousands dead. The main issue was going to be hospital overcrowding, etc.
All of this was predicted by the epidemiologists, practically word for word. They'd say something, and 2 weeks later it would be true. WHO sat on their hands, handcuffed by China, and that just made it all possible.
I mean there's not much you can do until your govt does something, but I do hope at least some people were getting prepared for this. I mentioned to people - don't panic, be prepared, go stock up (do NOT hoard) on supplies (DO NOT HOARD).
Some people fought with me about it (and some told me I had to apologize to them), but this isn't an "I told you so" post. It still applies today - listen to the actual experts. Politicians have a selfish agenda. "TV Doctors" have a selfish agenda. The epidemiologists have an agenda that is to deal with outbreaks like this the best they possibly can.
Good sources:
Tracking Zebra
Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security
CIDRAP