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Where the heck are doctors and nurses going to come from? Do they have excess trained people just hanging out at the mall?
God knows how many other hospitals and construction projects were thrown into chaos by crews being pulled from all over the place.
This is the kind of reaction seen when too much power lies with one guy up the heirarchy and he panics and overrules all his underlings. Wants to give an appearance of solving a problem much more than actually solving it.
I have seen this kind of stuff happening at global software crisis centers, where things escalate quickly and some guy up the hierarchy panics. Has too much power and just overrules everyone below. "We have to do something! Right now!!!" Bangs table!!! Underlings without push back obey. Those who do are pushed out and resources are mindlessly pulled from all over and massively squandered. With the PR dept blaring away about decisive leadership.
China has all the ingredients for that kind of decision making. The bug will die out in a couple weeks and then this will be a standing monument to how the herd reacts under stress.
> Where the heck are doctors and nurses going to come from? Do they have excess trained people just hanging out at the mall?
I'm sure there are regions that aren't facing even remotely the same crisis as Wuhan, where they can divert resources from. It's really not a huge deal. Unless you want to make the claim that all of China is going to succumb to this such that a diversion of resources wouldn't be possible at all? That's a stretch.
(I was skeptical myself initially. Looks like it's actually coming together.)
Apparently thousands of medical professionals have already been sent from other provinces. There are millions of medical professionals in China so sending even 1% would be night and day difference locally while not throwing other hospitals into chaos.
Throwing other construction projects into chaos? That’s utter nonsense, no normal construction projects would be active during the Chinese New Year period.
Some people in the West suggested to use an existing school or sports stadium, and while this may work in the West, the question is: Does Wuhan even have such a public facility available?
Some (unverified) reports were already suggesting that the city’s existing hospitals and facilities were already overburdened. At least something like this could help keep the very sick isolated from the others, and allow them to gracefully recover. Or if they are too far gone, then it would keep them isolated from those that can be saved.
I agree, I think this will blow over in a few months, and they’ll get it contained, while they starve out the virus. And that might only have been possible, because the central government mandated the quarantine, which did more to just inform people to keep their distance from others, and to wear protective gear while in public. We’ll see in a few months how effective this all is.