Foxbatt
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This is where you may not understand what happens in Asia. They always wear masks and treat anything with suspicion. When this happened in Wuhan the masks came out immediately and that contribute to the control of it getting out of hand out of Hubei.Fair points. Like you, I do not trust China's numbers and that they have contained it.
I ordered some at ebay, waiting, then not touching them for another few days. I barely go out nowadays, but when I go to the supermarket, I would prefer to have a mask.
If done right, it could. So they can send doctors from one state to another. However, I don't think that is going to happen, the federal government is failing to coordinate states to buy ventilators, cannot imagine them being organized so well as to send doctors and nurses from New York to Florida for example. On the other side, they can send these hospital ships, build new hospitals and so on, if the peak does not happen at the same time in most states.
In any case, it is definitely better than the peak happening at the same time everywhere (in which case you can expect close to 10k deaths per day if it is as bad as Spain).
The same way they controlled it in Taiwan and South Korea.
If the west had taken the same actions even in January things would have been under control. Even now there is no quarantine or forced isolation as they still have in China and even South Korea.