Politicians, Community Leaders
and Business Leaders: What Should You Do and When?
Updated on 3/13/2020. Now
reflects an update on containment vs. mitigation strategies. 11 translations at
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With everything that’s
happening about the Coronavirus, it might be very hard to make a decision of
what to do today. Should you wait for more information? Do something today?
What?
Here’s what I’m going to cover
in this article, with lots of charts, data and models with plenty of sources:
- How many cases of coronavirus will there
be in your area?
- What will happen when these cases
materialize?
- What should you do?
- When?
When you’re done reading the
article, this is what you’ll take away:
The coronavirus is coming to
you.
It’s coming at an exponential speed: gradually, and then suddenly.
It’s a matter of days. Maybe a week or two.
When it does, your healthcare system will be overwhelmed.
Your fellow citizens will be treated in the hallways.
Exhausted healthcare workers will break down. Some will die.
They will have to decide which patient gets the oxygen and which one dies.
The only way to prevent this is social distancing today. Not tomorrow. Today.
That means keeping as many people home as possible, starting now.
It’s coming at an exponential speed: gradually, and then suddenly.
It’s a matter of days. Maybe a week or two.
When it does, your healthcare system will be overwhelmed.
Your fellow citizens will be treated in the hallways.
Exhausted healthcare workers will break down. Some will die.
They will have to decide which patient gets the oxygen and which one dies.
The only way to prevent this is social distancing today. Not tomorrow. Today.
That means keeping as many people home as possible, starting now.
As a politician, community
leader or business leader, you have the power and the responsibility to prevent
this.
You might have fears today:
What if I overreact? Will people laugh at me? Will they be angry at me? Will I
look stupid? Won’t it be better to wait for others to take steps first? Will I
hurt the economy too much?
But in 2–4 weeks, when the
entire world is in lockdown, when the few precious days of social distancing
you will have enabled will have saved lives, people won’t criticize you
anymore: They will thank you for making the right decision.
Ok, let’s do this.
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