Oh, wow. Nobody wants to talk aboilut Taiwan and they are right at the center of it. The WHO refuses to aknowledge and report their numbers! They sent doctors to China and did an investigation back in Dec. from which they determined the virus was airborn and closed the borders immediately.
I expect there are three reasons why nobody will talk about Taiwan, one is China is being a big bully, two is how bad does it look for the WHO releasing statements that there is low likelyhood that the virus is airborn and no reason to restrict travel while it directly contradicts research that they had available. Three is that people don't want to aknowledge how well border restrictions worked.
How come when they talk about how many people are getting it and how many die tehy aren't sticking up the Flu stats for this season
They haven't published flu stats for 15 years. Now all flu deaths are grouped with pneumonia. If you look up early 2000s flu deaths they are around 5000 per year. Obviously some of the pneumonia deaths were flu too though.
What bothers me the most is the refusal to have a discussion on exactly how much is extending the life of an older person worth in terms of suffering of the younger generation. In ontario 700/800 deaths have occured in old age homes. These people are a tax burden on everyone. The reaction to this has been.. Ok I think, caution is good. But now that we have real data it is overblown.
I am adding this edit because of the shocked reactions and mentions of death squads. I don't mean we shouldn't try to help everyone but how many of these people would have died this year anyways? There are now 30 million more unemployed people, that's insane. I just want to say that without being heartless, there is a tradeoff to make.
