Harris county is a state onto its self , 4.7 million people ,plus undocumented , Texas 29 million people ,plus undocumented.
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And that right there is the problem with all of those individual states, and then even regions within states. They all think they can do their thing even when there is overwhelming evidence you need a centralized, controlled approach to combating this.
First, NY fell, and everyone thought 'won't happen to me'.
Then it spread to other hubs and still the rest thought 'won't happen to me'....
Then it started moving across the country and still the countryside would think 'won't happen to me'...
What's next? Triage. Italy v2, except then the scenario times a wild number of individual states... Even post steep curve in neighbouring states, so, those healthcare systems have already taken a beating. Its like watching the house next door burn down spontaneously and not even stopping to wonder what the hell happened.
Absolutely mind blowing... someone said measures take about a month to take effect (which is true, 2 week + 2 week as the infected spread domestically)? The US has already shown it doesn't have the slightest patience to lock itself down for a month. At this rate, you will never subdue this to begin with. NY is up for a new round, soon. Better hold on to those masks... I get it now, its all you've really got. Damn..
I think it's time for the russian people to oust Putin and establish a legitimate for of government.
That's White Russia right now
. You have to understand Putin is like the Russian Trump, and he's in office too on a majority vote. Note all the similarities, as they are being added almost daily between these two countries as we speak.
In the Belarusian capital Minsk, a long queue formed outside a covered food market on Sunday as people waited for hours to give their signature to opposition candidates contesting a presidential election in August.
www.reuters.com
Even if opposition in Russia isn't quiet either;
en.wikipedia.org
Ah a fellow Marylander. Maybe it's the introvert in me but I think we reopened too much too early.
That'd seem obvious. Once the first sign of a decline set in, people stopped being cautious, even with a storm raging. And then there is the cross-state influence as well. Looking at the US as individual states is still the most obvious mistake. That is also why the numbers per state don't often make a whole lot of sense and all of the analysis being done on the basis of them, is absolutely worthless in any general sense. Its an easy way to delude yourself into thinking some strange approach is going to work - which is the approach we see with all states doing whatever they think is best.
Compare it to Europe... we're effectively a continent of states too, but with more clearly defined national governments and those governments are also talking on a higher level (EU). The initial response was that of individual countries, and the EU was entirely pushed back to 'facilitate' whatever the states needed. Only after the initial panic did we start communicating, and that is when things started working in our favor again.
Even now the countries look and selectively open borders. It matters where you come from, as to how long you're getting and IF you are getting quarantined on arrival, for example. The flow of people is being controlled, monitored and constantly adapted to the latest reality in R numbers locally. Slowly but surely we're going towards an effective, pretty localized form of fully reopened society, keeping it managed above all else. I won't say we did things perfectly, but you do see how a state of relative control can be maintained if people just work together and if countries coordinate well. Note that this is talking about the period ever since March. We only opened since June, (Phase 1) and ever since July 1st its almost back to business as usual. That is not 4 weeks. Its more - much more.
Its those two key things: patience, and very cautious, controlled reopening with the constant idea it might pop back up, so you need contact tracing and test capacity available.
