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I don't want to fucking hear any shit about how what we're going through in the US was inevitable and the quarantine/containment strategy was an impossible dream
I have relatives in Taiwan who are going to work at the office, going out to eat, hanging out in bars
I have relatives in Taiwan who are going to work at the office, going out to eat, hanging out in bars
Taiwan is a country of 23 million people and their total number of cases was less than 500 and only 7 people total died
Their per capita GDP is $25k, less than half the US per capital GDP of $54k
Shut the fuck up
Their per capita GDP is $25k, less than half the US per capital GDP of $54k
Shut the fuck up
I'm so fucking bitter about the fact that my parents immigrated here right now you don't even know
Containment was always the ONLY option
It's an expensive strategy and a harsh one, sure, and unsexy, as opposed to humming supercomputers trying to synthesize a vaccine or some basement biochemist discovering a miracle cure through One Weird Trick
But IT WORKS
It's an expensive strategy and a harsh one, sure, and unsexy, as opposed to humming supercomputers trying to synthesize a vaccine or some basement biochemist discovering a miracle cure through One Weird Trick
But IT WORKS
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO
IS FIND OUT WHERE THE VIRUS IS
AND PUT A BIG WALL AROUND IT
THAT WAS LOUIS PASTEUR'S GAME-CHANGING WORLD-BREAKING NEW IDEA
FAR MORE THAN EVEN VACCINES, GERM THEORY SAVED MILLIONS THROUGH THE IDEA OF *HALTING VECTORS OF INFECTION*
IS FIND OUT WHERE THE VIRUS IS
AND PUT A BIG WALL AROUND IT
THAT WAS LOUIS PASTEUR'S GAME-CHANGING WORLD-BREAKING NEW IDEA
FAR MORE THAN EVEN VACCINES, GERM THEORY SAVED MILLIONS THROUGH THE IDEA OF *HALTING VECTORS OF INFECTION*
It seems hard but it's fucking simple
Simple technology, simple deployment, simple logistical problem
Test everyone as much as you can, lock down every place you can't test everyone, when your tests find the virus put the infected person in a box
Simple technology, simple deployment, simple logistical problem
Test everyone as much as you can, lock down every place you can't test everyone, when your tests find the virus put the infected person in a box
It doesn't take any special tricks or supercomputers or novel drug patents or anything
It's easy, it's idiot-proof, anyone can do it
You just have to ACTUALLY DO IT
Don't tell me you can't do it, Taiwan DID do it
It's easy, it's idiot-proof, anyone can do it
You just have to ACTUALLY DO IT
Don't tell me you can't do it, Taiwan DID do it
Compare that to Bill Gates' "optimistic" projection that we'll have a vaccine and get the virus under control that way by the end of 2021
You hear that everyone? Q4 2021, everything will be okay, mark your calendars
12-15 more fucking months of this shit
You hear that everyone? Q4 2021, everything will be okay, mark your calendars
12-15 more fucking months of this shit
And he DOESN'T ACTUALLY KNOW
You CAN'T know, that's not how the world works -- you don't know if a vaccine is even possible or not until you've actually made one
And we know that coronaviruses as a family are notoriously difficult to attack directly
You CAN'T know, that's not how the world works -- you don't know if a vaccine is even possible or not until you've actually made one
And we know that coronaviruses as a family are notoriously difficult to attack directly
They've never made a successful human coronavirus in the past -- SARS-1 has no vaccine, MERS has no vaccine
Those epidemics just burned themselves out and they were like "Oh well"
Those epidemics just burned themselves out and they were like "Oh well"
They shouldn't even have been talking about a vaccine
It led us directly down this horrible garden path, along with the incredibly irresponsible hoaxmongering about hydroxychloroquine
It led us directly down this horrible garden path, along with the incredibly irresponsible hoaxmongering about hydroxychloroquine
The idea of a "cure" or of "herd immunity" being like "Well if I really floor it, maybe I can drive all the way *through* the lake and out the other side"
Maybe, or maybe your engine's electrical system will short out and you'll drown
You don't even know how deep the lake is
Maybe, or maybe your engine's electrical system will short out and you'll drown
You don't even know how deep the lake is
We had ONE KNOWN PATH, one surefire way to NOT be in the situation we were in now, one way to hit the brakes, jerk the steering wheel around and drive in another direction, and we fucking squandered it
All the fucking assholes bleating about how expensive lockdown and containment was
It's expensive and it's hard and it was THE ONLY POSSIBLE CHOICE
It's expensive and it's hard and it was THE ONLY POSSIBLE CHOICE
If we had adequate testing, tracing and containment early on there would never have been a need for mass lockdown
