China building 1k-bed hospital over the weekend to treat coronavirus
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* The hospitals in Wuhan are at absolute maximum capacity. they are lumping any fever cases (e.g. flu) patients with potential coronavirus patients in the same room.
* People with mild symptoms are sent home due to capacity, they are instructed to be quarantined at home unless symptoms get worse
* Despite reports, surgical masks are completely sold out in China, my dad is asking me to send him 3M (the brand) masks from abroad.
* Even hospitals are low on surgical masks for staff. Each nurse is given one or two masks per day, but per regulation, they needed to replace the mask every 3 hours.
* A wider scale locked down went in to effect in Wuhan this morning, forbidding anybody from entering or leaving on any roads, rail, water or flight.
* Domestic news are filled with non-sense, top 3 news today are praising Xi's CNY speech, which has exactly zero word mentioning the pandemic or Wuhan.
[Edit] One more thing,
* This coronavirus is potentially deadlier than SARS. Most of the 25 deaths are from the original 47 cases that was reported a few weeks ago.
I can't put my finger on this where I may have seen this foxy pattern before...
I assume there are exceptions made for appropriate officials and medical personnel, if adequate quarantine rues are followed, do the group attracting the crowd funding have access to this channel? Or drone based deliver perhaps (assuming they don't break the transport in/out rule despite not being manned so not presenting the same infection spread vector)?
I'd like to know the masks are going to go somewhere useful, rather than being blocked by the rules and distributed around officials instead of to hospital staff & patients and the public, before I donate.
Tweet in simplified Chinese: https://twitter.com/yajunwwz/status/1220632278688129029
With link to YouTube in Mandarin: https://youtu.be/N6jsuoxENPE
That's not obvious. Here are some countries with higher estimated GDP per capita than China:
Mexico (roughly equal)
Malaysia (10% more)
Romania (24% more)
Uruguay (69% more)
Is 3M a brand, or are you shipping three million masks?
https://www.amazon.com/3M-Particulate-Respirator-8210-Pack/d...
N95 masks need to be fit properly [1], and are very uncomfortable for daily use.
Surgical masks are a good compromise for going out in public, and mostly protect others from the mask-wearer. It's more important to practise good hygiene to avoid infection [2].
[1] https://www.osha.gov/video/respiratory_protection/fittesting...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/health/coronavirus-surgic...
Under this model, if everyone panics and wears masks to prevent themselves from getting sick, the spread of the disease will be crippled because everyone's wearing masks and people who are sick can't infect anyone else. It's a great idea.
This isn't really different from the herd immunity model of vaccination, where a lot of individuals getting vaccinated return a huge bonus to society in the form of herd immunity. If herd immunity were the only benefit, would we still want people to get vaccinated? Of course, that's why it's supposed to be mandatory.
I also went to tmall.com, Alibaba’s Chinese online marketplace, and it appears they are in stock too:
https://list.tmall.com/search_product.htm?q=%BF%DA%D5%D6n95&...
Edit: What the hell with downvotes on a stated fact?
Going to call bullshit on the claim that they're sold out in the US.
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/public-should-...
(I checked five European papers from different countries, then five from African countries. It's on the homepage on all of them.)
My wife ( mainland Chinese ) said the hospital in Chongqing told here there were 24 confirmed cases there. She’s sick now and possibly has the Wuhan virus ( though her chest scans are clear ).
Unfortunately the doctors are overworked right now due to the holidays and she can’t see anyone for the next couple days. Hopefully she doesn’t have the virus, but she’s taking precautions.
I think the virus is spreading more than the news is letting on.
The are some good reasons we don't quite go at this pace, but there are lots of good lessons about expediency to be gleaned as well.
There are additional examples of China's construction prowess that perhaps better represent the point I was making.
...all we see so far is a TON of excavators digging a hole.
The modules were assembled off-site, and delivered in sequence, for final assembly onsite.
But I haven’t heard of any further news from the company (BSB I think), for a few years, that I assume the government must’ve shut down their business model. Perhaps for poor quality, or for design defects. But the construction technique is probably worthy of further study and refinement.
Also, by comparison the 102 story Empire State Building took 410 days to construct in the 1930’s including the foundation. So under the most generous assumptions it’s about 8x as fast.
Far from it. They were already fleeing before the lockdown.
https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/d8/images/methode...
So would you prefer to spend a week driving from Los Angeles to New York, instead of spending 5 hours flying, in a herd-like tin can, crammed full of people, and re-breathing the same recycled air?
I can’t remember the exact timing, but think I recall it being something like every 10 minutes or so that all the cabin air is replaced.
Not only infrastructure, it's just everything here glides like on butter in comparison to my experience in Canada and US, both in public and private spheres.
My experience making business in Canada: drag and head current in everything. That's a part of the culture: to complicate things, add friction, and "we don't know how it will go, so we wouldn't do anything" attitude
In the West, people feel to have something almost bordering on subconscious compulsion to impede things, and add friction to anything around.
From one side, your people have a burning desire to show concern, and involve themselves into everything, and on another, they have no real intention to do a thing beyond that.
> The are some good reasons we don't quite go at this pace, but there are lots of good lessons about expediency to be gleaned as well.
The biggest impediment you have in the West is the MBA culture everywhere. Everybody tries to speak like a banker or lawyer, and even think of that as something good!
How many fund managers do you need to define a strategy how to write a hello world app? You know the answer already, but these people will simply not take no as an answer, and will not let things go until they get it.
Of course things go smoothly if you only adhere to the lowest standards, and 'anything goes' attitude.
I don't disagree that there's likely an overabundance of thinkers over doers, something like 6-8% of people in the US go into trades school vs. 68% in Germany as an example.
That's because in countries like Germany or Denmark there's a shortage of skilled certified doers like plumbers and electricians so they're paid handsomely and since devs aren't paid as handsomely there as in SV, some prefer to go into trade as it can be more lucrative than tech in those markets.
Compared to the UK you notice that when you go to the bank: Clerks work fast, the supermarket: Cashier will scan items faster than you can put them into your bags, local MacDonald's: Your food is ready fast.
It works the other way round: Chinese who visit the UK often comment that everything is slower.
I've been to China once, traveling from HK with to a massive highly dense multi-floor shopping mall, and then went to a 20+ story hotel fully converted into a massive massage/spa. For two people: 45 minute foot massage coming with some fruit and a drink, followed by an hour long full body massage, including tip, cost $36 CAD. Both environments were really incredible to experience, very opposite to how spacious our malls our, and how factory line feeling the massage hotel was in comparison. I'm still undecided which model is better - obviously though if both models are viable in an ecosystem then unless there are controls in place for quality and space requirements, then the lower price will win out competitive price wise, and cause strain on the other model's viability.
I think the "huge population" aspect is overdone when discussing China.
If I apply for a job at my local supermarket, the competition I face has little to do with the fact that the UK's population is 65 million vs 1.4 billion in China.
Is the competition in the US 5x fiercer than in the UK because the population is 5x higher? No because there are also more jobs and the number of people within 'reach' of a given job is likely about the same irrespective of the country's total population.
Unemployment rate might be a better metric, but 'employment rate at food employee level or higher' would be the best I guess.
* swine flu
* SARS
* bird flu
* H1N1"Building machinery, including 35 diggers and 10 bulldozers, arrived at the site on Thursday night, with the aim to get the new facility ready by Monday, the paper added."
“The construction of this project is to solve the shortage of existing medical resources,” the report said.
“It created a miracle in the history of medical science,” the paper added.
A new, dangerous respiratory virus mutating in the overcrowded and unhygienic environment of a poorly-managed city market, and then spreading almost unchecked for six weeks, amidst continual denials of its serious nature?
No, probably not.
Such things would never happen in any kind of first world country. let's focus on exotic animal markets in China to make us all feel superior
No, health epidemics could never thrive in our amazing country because we have safe meat markets
Unlike China, the West tries to learn from its mistakes. It's why we have so much bureaucracy. The cost of red tape seems excessive until shit like this happens in the places that don't have red tape.
We do so much learning, its Yuuge I tell you. No other country learns so great. And our bureaucracy, everyone is jealous of it, it is so highly, so much red tape. Nobody has that much red tape.
https://qz.com/1790253/the-usda-is-recalling-more-unsafe-mea...
Lol
But no, we don't have dirty food markets, so we have that going for us.
The most you can say is that Jews have more contact with each other (they have strong community ties) so the virus has a chance to spread.
PS. Good job labeling ordinary people "religious fanatics". You might want to take a deep look inside yourself.
>The U.S. experienced 17 outbreaks in 2018. Three outbreaks in New York State, New York City, and New Jersey, respectively, contributed to most of the cases. Cases in those states occurred primarily among unvaccinated people in Orthodox Jewish communities. These outbreaks were associated with travelers who brought measles back from Israel, where a large outbreak is occurring. Eighty-two people brought measles to the U.S. from other countries in 2018.
>In upstate New York, the outbreak has spread through insular communities in Rockland and Orange counties, where vaccination rates in some schools and day care centers is at 60%, according to New York state health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker. The state’s overall vaccination rate is 92.5%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Source: https://forward.com/news/national/417390/measles-is-hitting-...
"However, the New York State Health Department reports the average vaccination rate for measles among the nearly 200 Jewish K-12 schools in Brooklyn — mainly in Borough Park and Williamsburg — is 96%"
To get 60% in a couple schools the rates at the rest of the schools must be pretty near 100%.
And don’t give me the same source you used because no where within the website does it contain the paragraph you highlighted.
The rate of vaccine refusal for Orthodox Jews is radically higher than the general public--second only to Jehovah's Witnesses on a proportionate basis.
"However, the New York State Health Department reports the average vaccination rate for measles among the nearly 200 Jewish K-12 schools in Brooklyn — mainly in Borough Park and Williamsburg — is 96%, six percentage points higher than the statewide average among private schools. In contrast, six other New York counties have a vaccination rate below 50%."
And just to be clear, these are Orthodox K-12 schools we are talking about.
https://health.data.ny.gov/Health/School-Immunization-Survey...
> The rate of vaccine refusal for Orthodox Jews is radically higher than the general public--second only to Jehovah's Witnesses on a proportionate basis.
Where in the world are you getting such utter crap data from?
There were some schools at 77%, but that was not vaccine refusal, that was just kids who hadn't made time to go to the Dr., when prompted virtually all of them vaccinated. And that's from the CDC itself.
https://www.jta.org/2019/06/07/united-states/heres-what-we-k...
The County at issue in that outbreak confirms the low vaccination rates as of 2018 and 2019, when the outbreak actually occurred.
Cured? Where?
The US had ~1,300 cases in 2019 and successfully put down the small outbreak. By September the cases were down to six that month and they stayed down. It was the worst outbreak in decades.
The EU had as many cases in 2019 - 13,500 - as the US did in the prior 20 years combined. That's ten times the figure the US had in 2019. In 2017 + 2018 Europe broadly had around 110,000 cases.
I think the US is very obviously doing excellent regarding measles.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/One-MacArthur-freeway...
This was an impressive thing to live through too...
You have an underclass who cannot afford to go to hospital or see a doctor, which extends well up into the low end of the working middle class.
You have employers who penalize workers for self-quarantine.
You have vicious mistreatment of undocumented people that makes them scared to draw official notice anywhere.
The military is quite experienced at putting up buildings very very fast.
>from Fefe [0] "[...] it's done by 3rd of feb. I suppose we could do the same in Germany, but it'd be 3rd of feb 2030."
I think with any new virus or etc folks focus on what they know at that time ... and effectively waiting for testing / what they observe to enhance their understanding.
The issue is that the Chinese gov't threatened prison to anyone who reported it.
What you should be asking yourself is how prepared is $country for an outbreak of a virulent pathogen? And; given its preparedness (1) how quickly could an area be cordoned off and quarantined, (2) how quickly could a makeshift medical structure to house an appreciable number of patients be slung together?
There would be one rabbit family on the site, which would trigger endless environmental protest and lawsuits to protect their right of living there and against disruptions of their habitat.
States and the federal government have emergency powers for crises. This is how e.g. FEMA is able to rapidly erect shelters in disaster areas without needing to care about zoning rules.