Letter from Shanghai about Coronavirus WORLD <http://admin.halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world> NEWS DESK <http://admin.halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/component/spauthorarchive/> 02 MARCH 2020 HITS: 11138
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Not a warning, not a “precautionary” article on “what to do if things go bad”. In less than 48 hours my life went from completely normal to being afraid to open my front door. I’d like to pause here and actually have you imagine what it’d be like to be that afraid. Please note that this was not a “scare tactic”, it was the reality of the Coronavirus playing out right in front of our eyes. We had no time to doubt, to consider the politics, and we didn’t have information at the time for what safety measures to take. We just knew that there was a new disease with no cure and more and more people were dying every single day. What should’ve been the most festive time of the year became a nightmare no one could wake from. No one could believe things were getting so severe, and escalating so quickly. And I wasn’t even in WuHan. Stories of entire families being wiped out, stories of people actually starving to death due to home quarantine, stories of people committing suicide because hospitals had no room for them and they’d rather die than infect their loved ones, these stories aren’t being told by the media. We don’t hear the stories of people lining up for 8+ hours outside hospitals only to become too weak to stand in line any longer and went home to die, to infect their loved ones and their families who ALSO died without medical care, and couldn’t even end up being part of a statistic. Fear-driven animal abuse. Suicide photos. People chasing after ambulances with no chance to say goodbye to their deceased loved ones as they went to be incinerated. Xenophobic judgments and racist responses. All on top of the basic hell that an epidemic brings. THIS IS OUR EVERYDAY. SO. When I see articles about how the “Coronavirus is nothing to worry about”, how it “isn’t as dangerous as the flu”, how “America only has one death so clearly the virus isn’t deadly”, DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I HURT. I hurt for the people that have no family left. I hurt for all of the medical professionals who are putting aside their entire lives to save as many people as they can. I hurt for the people that never got a chance to get diagnosed. I hurt for those who have died in vain. Because I filter my updates so they cause the least amount of Chinese racism possible while stating the reality of how terrifying things have been here. Because I have the choice to come back to the states “as an American” at the cost of abandoning my loved ones and my people behind. Because the Chinese people are just as much my people as are Americans, yet I’ve always been told to choose which I’m more loyal to. China is under reporting statistics in order to curb panic, and that is an ethical issue in itself, but it should also show us that things are worse than the media is making it out to be, otherwise they wouldn’t feel the need to do that in the first place. BOTH countries are guilty of misinformation and shortcomings in the face of this epidemic, but a cyclical game of who’s worse won’t get us anywhere. I read the tragedies of the virus in China by day, and with the time difference, catch the American news by night. The contrast is appalling. This virus isn’t going to bring forth the apocalypse, or the end of the world, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t something that also deserves our attention. It has spread over the globe in a matter of two months, and we shouldn’t underestimate its destructive power. As for the many comparing it to the flu, no one is saying the flu isn’t dangerous too. But the dangers associated with the flu do not negate the dangers of the Coronavirus, either. We have protocols and treatment plans in place for the flu, we have consistent information about the flu over years of testing and statistics. Meanwhile, the Coronavirus is infecting thousands while we are still trying to figure out what it even is, how to fight it, and how to prevent it. So, I don’t care about whether the US is trying to “scare you into buying hand sanitizer”, and I’ll even stand with you against the fear-mongers and clickbait articles. But have some respect and realize how lucky you are that you even HAVE this kind of warning. Be safe, everyone. Stay calm, but aware. On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 at 12:50, Blaze Spinnaker <blazespinna...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good news, finally! pretty low mortality rate in South Korea. > > Perhaps very aggressive testing is just the thing we need. Lots of drive > through testing throughout the country would be great. Catch it early, > make people aware of their status. Get them to self isolate. It's pretty > noninvasive as well from I can tell, just swam swabbing. > > > https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/coronavirus-testing-blitz-appears-to-keep-south-korea-death-rate-low > > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 2:22 PM Jonathan Berry <aethe...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Who thinks the US WANTS the Coronavirus (Covid19 just sounds clunky) to >> get bad? >> >> Though Jed has spoken well about the baffling ignorance politicians have >> with respect to science... >> Still, I have heard so many times about how the US makes faulty tests, >> isn't testing people, only a few states can test, false negatives... >> >> This is rife for that Archer meme, "Do you want X, Because this is how >> you get X". >> >> level 4 >> CollegeSuperSenior <https://www.reddit.com/user/CollegeSuperSenior/> >> 615 points·2 hours ago >> <https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/fdyxpu/italy_says_its_had_41_new_covid19_deaths_in_just/fjl3679/> >> >> No joke. I work in US healthcare and have helped patients who have >> traveled to infected countries and are showing symptoms but we have not >> done any testing for covid-19. I am starting to get a terrible cough myself >> but I wont be tested and will not be allowed to take any sick leave unless >> I am dying and 100% unable to make it to work. >> >> >> This means the US is looking at a massive outbreak which won't be >> killing at the nominal mortality rate, but at a rate closer to the serious >> rate that requires hospitalization, but where there isn't real possibility >> of that. >> >> >> Basically, Iran is a look at the future for the US. >> >> On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 at 09:15, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: >> >>> In reply to Terry Blanton's message of Thu, 5 Mar 2020 14:44:46 -0500: >>> Hi, >>> [snip] >>> >$2.4T World GDP loss? Hah! The stockmarket lost $6T last week alone. >>> >>> BTW stock market losses don't really count, because there is a winner >>> for every loser. The net impact is small. GDP >>> losses OTOH imply a loss of production. That is a real loss, though what >>> remains will be spread over less people, so the >>> net effect per head of population may not be too severe. >>> >>> > >>> > >>> https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-selloff-impact-americans-3-charts-not-immediate-impact-2020-2-1028952948 >>> > >>> > >>> >On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 11:06 AM Frank Znidarsic <fznidar...@aol.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> >> >>> >> >>> https://www.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-spreads-one-study-predicts-101552222.html >>> >> >>> Regards, >>> >>> >>> Robin van Spaandonk >>> >>> local asymmetry = temporary success >>> >>>
