now lets see how these guidelines are put in action.Įnjoy your holiday, I am sure you will have a blast.
they have spent months preparing for this, and have drafted up hundreds of pages of guildelines on how to act when cases rise. I am sure other will have opposing thoughts but i think the likelihood of the Maldives closing down is close to 0. people die of many causes each year, and i am of the idea that we cannot stay locked up forever and life must move on. the death rate for most demographical segments is very very low. we are not talking about the H5N1 Avian Influenza that has a death rate of 60%. I think that we are all getting slightly brainwashed by the media and are forgetting that this is respiratory disease that, for the most part, is non fatal. The above are all wonderful questions that i wish news channels and news articles would address rather than dropping these "rising cases" figures without rationalizing them in some sort of context.
How many test were run on a specific day and how does that compare to the daily average? How many of the reported infected were asymptomatic? How many are displaying symptoms? on average,are the symptoms light, heavy, or medium? Are any of these new cases being taken into the ICU? is the death rate increasing? Are hospitals filling up?
saying that there have been +61 new cases (which i believe was the number of cases yesterday) means nothing without added context. I also think that the reporting of cases in the way most health health agencies/news channels report cases only leads to confusion and panic. its a pandemic and we are dealing with a viral disease that will sneak thru the cracks no matter what provisions you put in place. You could reopen with the most restrictive restrictions known to man, and i guarantee you, 100%, that you will se a rise in cases. the maldives decided to make the hard (economically driven) decision allow everyone in, no restrictions, no testing so its literally inevitable that the cases will go up. Let's take the maldives for example: theyve been on lockdown for months now. It is always baffles me when dramatic headlines about "exponential rise" in cases make the news, especially related to a reopening.