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Originally Posted by MAXUM
When the data is showing that mitigation efforts such as social distancing, wearing face coverings and isolation have done nothing to prevent the spread it doesn't matter what you do fast or slow it doesn't make a darn bit of difference.
This is a perception thing at this point nothing else.
As another side note everyone also believes that antiviral medications are 100% effective, guess what they aren't.
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It certainly will be interesting to see all of the after-event scientific analysis and the results of all the studies currently taking place.
Hong Kong was one of the earliest spots hit. Hong Kong tests heavily. Hong Kong has gone 14 days with zero locally transmitted cases.
The HK government continues to stress continued wearing of masks as an essential component of their efforts to combat transmission. I have no idea whether your assertion that wearing face coverings have done nothing to prevent the spread but it seems highly unlikely that it hasn’t helped here. Also, for sure their hospital isolation of COVID positive individuals has been highly effective in eliminating transmission here. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be sitting here with no new cases for weeks.
If face coverings, isolation, and distancing do nothing to prevent the spread, how does one explain the success they have had here in bottling this up, or in other places that have been similarly effective like South Korea, Taiwan, etc.?