Hello,
Thank you for comments from China and the US.
National designed solutions to address COVID-19 are producing very different experiences for their populations.
I'm writing this from Fremantle, Western Australia.
Western Australia (WA) is a country the size of Europe with a population of 2.5m predominately in the Perth/Fremantle metropolitan area.
We've been highly exposed to COVID-19 via the cruise shipping industry. Here in Fremantle is a major and tourist destination for cruise ships.
The Australian national policies were designed and delivered fast.
Here in WA, the Labour Premier, Mark McGowan and the State Executive acted very quickly to design local COVID-19 strategies that are effective and socially manageable.
In Western Australia, we are now on the other side of the first wave of infection.
So far in Western Australia we've had 523 cases of COVID-19 with 251 now recovered and only 6 deaths. The numbers of new cases are down to 6 per day and falling. At this point, there appears to be zero community transmission of the disease.
The protection strategy has involved rapid lockdown from more than 4 weeks ago that closed just about everything including closing the borders and stopped anyone travelling around the country. Extensive financial support has been promised for those most vulnerable.
We are now waiting to see if the situation will remain under control and whether civil society will manage. At this point, it seems like this is a well-designed strategy that will work over the longer term.
A reasonable description of the design for the Australian COVID-19 protective strategies is available at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/09/have-australia-new-zealand-stopped-covid-19-in-its-tracks-coronavirus
New Zealand is doing even better and Jessica Arden's design for a protection strategy seems to be aimed at total elimination of the disease in New Zealand.
My guess as to the effective enablers of designs for effective COVID-19 protection strategies that minimise pressure on hospitals and medical systems and avoids social disruption are:
1. Low residential density (more spaces between houses)
2. Weak community development (people expect to be alone or less in community situations)
3. National wealth and geo-political leverage
4. Defined and sealable borders
5. Low level of reliance on other countries for food and resources
6. Ease of ability to work from and operate from home (including home schooling)
7. Easy access to food and daily living supplies and reliable supply and manufacturing chains
8. Temperate climate
9. High level of internet adoption
10. Reliable policing and criminal justice system
Thoughts?
Best wishes,
Terry
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Dear Yeqiu Yang:
I really enjoyed this documentary series, too: thank you for sharing it. It is fascinating to see how incredibly different the response was in Wuhan more than a month ago from the response in the USA right now. We've had lovely weather the last two days in Austin. I wear a mask even when I go outside to water plants or pull weeds in my own yard. But of the hundreds of people I've seen walk, jog, and bike past my house in the last 48 hours, I would estimate that only about 5% have been wearing masks of any sort, despite the CDC's recommendation to wear homemade cloth masks in public.
The contrast with how the citizens of Wuhan responded could really not be more stark. Only in the last week did the police start kicking people out of the public parks: people were still playing tennis and basketball, and letting their toddlers play on the park equipment, until about a week ago.
Similarly, the Tongji University guidelines that Ken Friedman distributed were a revelation when I first read them about a month ago: they advised wearing hats and gloves as well as masks when out grocery shopping, etc., and suggested (though not explicitly stated) that one should wear eye protection, too. They also assume that everyone already takes off their shoes at the door, and thus suggest sanitizing the doormat regularly. Many Americans do not remove their shoes at the door, and I have not heard anyone here suggest sanitizing the doormat, either.
I was already convinced that Americans were Doing It All Wrong, but these videos and the Tongji U. guidelines provided further confirmation, alas.
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On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 9:06 AM Yeqiu Yang <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear all,
> As you know, we are facing an invisible global "war".
> Here is a true story to share with you: A photographer from China,
> Haitang's 30-day documentary.
> His wife was a nurse at Wuhan Hospital and was unfortunately infected
> while treating patients. Haitang used the first perspective to
> document his lover from infection to healing. You can see that she
> went from despair to struggle and finally to rebirth.
> In this invisible war, we are still full of hope and love, thank you.
>
> video link :
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbXyHGrXAsY
>
> The video is in Chinese language but has English subtitles.
>
> best regards,
>
> Yeqiu Yang
>
> Phd candiate of Politecnico di Milano
>
>
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