The American response has been completely inadequate. Travel restrictions helped, but there needs to be a massive undertaking to root out this infection before it spreads. We've have a third-world level response.

If we don't have an appropriate response, it could be disastrous towards the nation, the economy and the current administration.

Spain doesn't give a single fuck so far

Like the El Clásico (Real Madrid CF vs FC Barcelona soccer match) is happening right now with like 80-85k spectators

No checks

Let’s just spam trump for the rest of the day

trump

@christiam you can't stop it guy, nothing can. Two weeks contagious with no symptoms can't be solved in the modern world

We can find a vaccine, test it for 2 years, and take 1-2 years spooling up production

Or power through, suck up the 15% fatality rate among 70+ year olds

Sorry Boomers

False, we are a modernized nation capable of taking drastic measures.

Forced symptom checking at checkpoints, shops on the streets.

China is a shithole, yet they took drastic measures. Given they wouldn't have, coronavirus would've infected a lot more than just 70,000.

The most authoritarian nation in the world, who has no qualms killing anyone and everyone if necessary, with advanced electronic surveillance everywhere and absolute control over population movement couldn't stop it

It would've been worse if they hadn't responded in the way they did.

look at Iran.

They have a near 50% fatality rate overall, and the disease is spreading rapidly.

So, with all that power they couldn't stop it, but in the west you expect us to?

They significantly slowed it.

Part of the cost of freedom is increased risk, in the west we decided that was a good trade

It still is

Muh freedom to be infected.

Sorry, we need government protection against a highly deadly virus.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coronavirus-has-temporarily-reduced-chinas-co2-emissions-by-a-quarter

My parents could die in their 80's now due to coronavirus

Vs being shot in their 30s by commumists

So stopping disease is communist.

Lmao

We need to prevent this disease from spreading like it did in China, at all costs.

It's easy to criticize but noone wants to develop solutions

If anything, dead grandpas would help commies (millions saved in unpaid pensions)

The solution is pretty simple, impose extensive checking of infected areas.

There're already jokes on how countries like France and Spain want Coronavirus to run wild so they save a few hundred millions

Unless you want to be like Italy, where the government is doing jack, and they are paying the price.

There is an economic incentive to slow the spread as well, to prevent market panic.

In Spain, the average pensioner starts getting more money than he ever gave to the government THIRTEEN years after retirement (age 78 if you worked until you're 65, the legal limit)

Imagine if you could kill a few thousand old people with some shitty virus

Pensioners should get exactly what they gave + interest.

At least if we're talking about govt. pensions.

In most countries, you get money until you're dead, which means the current life expectancy is making pensions entirely unsustainable