>The only way we can avoid large scale impact is if the virus finds it hard to survive in the heat
Personally, I'm hoping against hope that the heat really does slow this virus down. I don't really have much faith in the policies that the various developed nations have enacted to deal with this particular threat. Not really the fault of the leaders, This situation's just something that has not been seen previously. No experience with it at all. I do think governments are emphasizing the wrong things and not being comprehensive. But so are the people. We're buying toilet paper, but leaving soap on the shelves? But overall, governments at least seem to concede it is a threat at this point.
If the heat won't help us? We're in trouble. If India's heat doesn't slow it down, we're gonna be living with this virus for a good long time. Everyone should be rooting for India and Africa at this point. Cut off the rest of the world from those two places so that we can see if the spread is, at least, impaired a little by the heat or the humidity.
> Not really the fault of the leaders, This situation's just something that has not been seen previously.
This is the fault of the majority of our past or present leaders that ignored history and ignored the warnings (recently SARS, MERS, Ebola), and have left everyone unprepared. Not all countries were unprepared.
A civilised, well run country, deals with risks proactively (and ideally develops techniques to decisively act reactively as well).
Personally, I'm hoping against hope that the heat really does slow this virus down. I don't really have much faith in the policies that the various developed nations have enacted to deal with this particular threat. Not really the fault of the leaders, This situation's just something that has not been seen previously. No experience with it at all. I do think governments are emphasizing the wrong things and not being comprehensive. But so are the people. We're buying toilet paper, but leaving soap on the shelves? But overall, governments at least seem to concede it is a threat at this point.
If the heat won't help us? We're in trouble. If India's heat doesn't slow it down, we're gonna be living with this virus for a good long time. Everyone should be rooting for India and Africa at this point. Cut off the rest of the world from those two places so that we can see if the spread is, at least, impaired a little by the heat or the humidity.