benaj
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Post by benaj on Mar 12, 2020 22:08:29 GMT
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Post by mrclondon on Mar 12, 2020 22:18:12 GMT
Most conspiracy theories believe the delay this time was specifically related to a desire to avoid triggering the "pandemic bonds".
However, the criteria is significantly more complex than that
The official explantaion by the WHO is that it felt declaring a pandemic too soon would lead to a loss of focus on containing the spread. In a perhaps unguarded comment 10 days or so ago, one of their senior guys let slip that it would be declared a pandemic when the WHO concluded it was uncontrollable.
Unfortunately though, declaring a pandemic sooner might have been the kick up the backside that Trump needed to avoid a disaster in the US.
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Post by registerme on Mar 12, 2020 22:29:03 GMT
Unfortunately though, declaring a pandemic sooner might have been the kick up the backside that Trump needed to avoid a disaster in the US.
There is no boot big enough for that insensitive an arse.
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Post by benaj on Mar 12, 2020 23:04:09 GMT
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Post by bernythedolt on Mar 12, 2020 23:38:20 GMT
Are you sure WHO declared SARS pandemic? Where are you reading that (can't see it in your link)?
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Post by benaj on Mar 13, 2020 0:02:12 GMT
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Post by registerme on Mar 13, 2020 0:11:35 GMT
Seriously, stop pulling a scary face and start a) washing your hands and b) not mixing with people. That's not a dig at you benaj , but in general if more people panicked less and behaved more sensibly we could make this thing a whole lot less bad. It's going to be bad either way, but let's do what we can to lessen the impact.
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Post by captainconfident on Mar 13, 2020 0:53:08 GMT
Solid sense as usual, registerme. I heard Johnson's statement on the virus today, and it contrasts to Belgium's just announced strategy = all cafes to close after the weekend,all schools closed until 3rd April, no meetings or gathering of any sort until then. That's in stark contrast to the UK's 'Don't panic and wash your hands" approach. I wonder who is right? I note that when there was a flu epidemic, not everyone got flu. I understand that this corona virus is more easily transmissible, but we are taking handwashing and no touching precautions which were not mentioned when flu epidemics were going on. So will it really be so bad? In the USA it certainly might as they seem to have lost control and the flight ban might be a blessing in stopping untested Americans coming in, as they did with the more deadly second wave of the Spanish Flu in late 1918 (I saw a documentary on the US PBS channel - it was a troopship full of dying GIs that determindly refused to turn back and unloaded the mutated, more deadly virus in Marseilles). |
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Post by benaj on Mar 13, 2020 7:11:05 GMT
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Post by bernythedolt on Mar 13, 2020 10:44:52 GMT
Yes, they declared swine flu pandemic in 2009. Your thread title concerns SARS though, which WHO never declared pandemic. One of us is confused, probably me. 
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Post by mv on Mar 13, 2020 12:12:39 GMT
The danger of this pandemic is that soon every itu bed and ventilator in the country could be in use and many people without covid who would normally be supported in intensive care will not be able to access it...
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