China Virus Threat 2020

[River Song]

Its been an interesting week. We are now self isolated but getting out to a park for a walk each day.
Food supplies are OK for a while.

Responses from people are interesting. From the right, some people think that the government(s) are over reaching. From the left, even if they were at the Last Supper they would complain about the portion sizes.

I honestly don't think people realize how bad this actually is.

Obviously things changed when the Imperial College report came out and our governments changed to suppression mode. However, the last sentence of the report was chilling ....

"However, we emphasize that is not at all certain that suppression will succeed long term; no public health intervention with such disruptive effects on society has been previously attempted for such a long duration of time. How populations and societies will respond remains unclear"

Let's be clear- this has all the makings of a 1918 situation. Whatever happens, the world will not be the same afterwards, and we need to think about new paradigms rather than the old left/right dichotomies.

The state is going to be a far bigger player whether we like it or not.

Keep safe