Are you from india? Ever been there
..know its history?.I am from india and born there ...trust me when they mean lockdown they mean lockdown...there have been many lockdowns in Indian history...will it be 100% successful no but they will lock down the country mostly in urban centers where needed and they really have no choice...
I am not saying we need to do that as india is a different culture and society.
I am saying many people have not respected self isolation in Canada when they travelled and more could have been done.
The lesson from this is that we need to be way more harsh on people who travelled during pandemics as they are the primary vectors of diease.
Flatten the curve seem you need to take steps apart from just using the honour system.
I am not from India, I was not born there, but yes, I am very familiar with it. And not just from maps or documentaries, LOL
Some of us are careful when we speak to make statements we can support.
Just so we're clear ( I know I'm repeating myself and apologize to those who read my posts); the epidemiological evidence indicates the majority of the human race will be infected with this virus at some point in the 10-14 months.
Virtually no action we can take will change that.
For the vast majority of those infected, this disease will not produce any symptoms.
For others it will be minor.
And for a small, but not insignificant minority, it will be serious, and potentially fatal.
The purpose of this action is not to avoid infection; its to slow the spread, and even-out the volume of serious cases such that local healthcare systems can cope.
That's what overwhelmed Wuhan for a time; and now Northern Italy.
Action is warranted. We do want to save lives.
But there is need to have some sense that brutal actions also cost lives.
Not 1 or 2, tragic as that may be; but many thousands or more.
One must strike an intelligent balance.
One must know that most people will get infected regardless.
What you're hoping to do is make that something that can be coped with better.
That may require (likely has and will) fairly severe action, for a time.
But one should never be happy about that; nor craving it.
One should never fail to realize in saving some lives, you are taking others.
We need evidence-based policy, not panic-based policy.
We also need to be mindful that the evidence is now clear, that in Wuhan, in Italy and in New York, restrictions on movement, including the closure of schools likely accelerated serious infections rather than reducing them.
We sent young children who carried infection, but were asymptomatic, home. Home to be with parents and grandparents who were much more vulnerable, particularly with long-term exposure to the virus.
Haste can make for terrible consequences.