I had someone today tell me that the curve is flattening already, it was reported on the news.
This can’t possibly be true. I subscribe to the “what we know today is reality from 3 weeks ago” idea. I don’t think we are anywhere near the top of the curve yet. I would hope that would come around the 2nd week of April, once the distancing measures have time to be seen, and of course all the morons currently in resorts down south come home and make it through the incubation period, or not.
In the meantime, I really hope we are ramping up ventilator production, and getting temporary ICU’s up and running.
I saw a pic of such a set up in Hong Kong a little while ago. They looked like shipping containers that had what looked like private ventilator pods set up. A step up from the Wuhan temporary hospitals from all appearances.
We missed the containment window due to poor choices, poor planning and poor execution.
This next phase REALLY matters, and we have time to prepare for it.
Our leaders can not afford to drop the ball again.