re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ***W.H.O. DECLARES A GLOBAL PANDEMIC***

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Their ability to quarantine is the most effective treatment for this.

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There are pluses and minuses, but the NYT story highlighted the fact that donated supplies are going to politically connected people and not to hospitals or worse yet, just sitting in a warehouse. Meanwhile doctors and nurses are dying from lack of proper medical equipment.

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Let's take this a step further.

As with most public health emergencies, there is no single "most effective" plan of action. Quarantines make the most sense under the following conditions:

1) The quarantine takes effect immediately after the disease is first diagnosed, so that a relatively few affected individuals can be isolated.

2) Those individuals in quarantine receive treatment and constant supervision within an isolation ward at a top-tier medical facility.

3) Proactive steps are taken to ensure that other people with life-threatening illnesses receive the treatment they need.

China, on the other hand, accomplished the following:

1) Denied the existence of the coronavirus for several weeks and threatened any doctors or nurses who tried to sound warnings about the disease.

2) Quarantined people in large public spaces and their own apartment blocks, thus creating large 21st century leper colonies that serve as petri dishes for the coronavirus. The Chinese government also provided little to no medical support for countless people afflicted by the disease.

3) Thoughtlessly signed death warrants for every other person who has a different, yet serious, illness by confining them to their homes, whether or not they needed life-saving medication.

Therefore, China's quarantine is a complete and utter medical disaster. It's also a sign of the Chinese government's callous disregard for basic human dignity. The misery that's been caused by their lack of compassion and obsessive desire for power is unimaginable right now.