Millions in China are suffering through severe lockdowns and untold number of medical workers are putting their lives on the line and thus gifting us with time to prepare for a pandemic that will greatly stress our infrastructure. Our lackadaisical approach is unconscionable.

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I don't think people understand the issue. There are no fixed numbers. There is no single R0 (infectiousness), no single CFR (case fatality rate), no single percent infected. It's all a Schrödinger's pandemic: to be settled when COVID-19 hits our infrastructure and our response.
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I'm a third-worlder by birth and childhood, and it is painful to see that more and more people in such wealthy countries may well be about to discover what it means to hit even a hiccup with terrible infrastructure. My goodness, this is stuff we should be ready for anyway.
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"We get the flu every year." You know what will happen if we hit COVID-19 unprepared? More people will die of... the flu. And everything else. On top of COVID-19. We have only so many hospital beds, ventilators, ICUs. To be ready means we are ready to flatten the curve—buy time.
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Serious question: As average citizens in the US, what would you recommend doing to prepare? Supplies? General practices?
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It's not too complicated. I'm writing a short version of that now. :-D
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You should just refer people to
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Yeah, will do that. That' not the part I'm writing.
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Cool. So glad for your work. We need to get people to realize how serious this is without immobilizing them with fear.
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Exactly.
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