And no western government, in all the emergency planning, and practising for bird flu, bothered to study those incidents? The cultural difference is probably latent imperialism, and bloody false memories of a blitz that most people can't remember.South Korea had advantages that we and the rest of the West didnt.
They had the MERS outbreaks in 2018 and 2015, SARS in 2003 and were hit properly by Swine flu in 2009.
So they have infrastructure that other countries dont, but also they have a massive cultural difference that we just dont have in this country because it's our first big pandemic in living memory.
And it's that cultural difference that matters.
All the photos going around of people just going about their normal business in rammed places, socialising as if there's nothing going on, spreading it willingly. Absolutely bleak. Those fuckers have blood on their hands.
I don’t subscribe to the associated conspiracy theories, but if they were true then that would be the perfect way to deliver it.By crippling their own first?
All the photos going around of people just going about their normal business in rammed places, socialising as if there's nothing going on, spreading it willingly. Absolutely bleak. Those fuckers have blood on their hands.
And the mile long queue of people outside?10 people allowed in max and with a basket each only
Sorry to hear this. When did you yourself contract it?The story behind the COVID-19 outbreak in the Black Country is heart wrenching.
It stated with a skier coming back from holiday in Northern Italy, he then went to church the following Sunday and spread it to many members of his local church and they spread it to their friends who spread it to doctors surgeries, charity shops and schools.
Most of the spread occured before people had symptoms. Indeed I have caught it from a doctors surgery known to be effected.
30 dead so far.
The only good news is that most of the medical staff who caught it will be fit again to help manage the charnel house that will be with us soon.
To quote a doctor friend if mine, "The policy of not enforcing the wearing of surgical masks in the west is clearly a dreadful decision. As a result the virus is spreading 3 times faster in the west than in China or South Korea." The first purpose of a surgical mask is to stop the wearer spreading disease to others.