p--and--t
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There are plenty of estimates of the mean number of people each infected person infects, and IIRC most are somewhere between 2 and 3, with a few outliers, and so on with the mean time from exposure to symptoms also being measured in several days.
I'm not an apologise for the national pandemic influenza plan, or whatever its called, but there's the matter of using scarce resources in the most cost effective matter. You could have everyone who has to isolate monitored daily by the police, or transfer them to quarantine stations, but that's not happening either.
Of course, there will be 300,000 cases by tomorrow and there were only 8,000 SARS cases altogether. But the available resources to deal with the problem at the airport? - Somewhat fewer, given 12 years of efficiency dividends since then.
Cheers skip
There are 20,000 Qantas workers looking for something useful to do and 100,000 casuals in various industries stood down. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm coming to the view the Chinese procedures may be the most appropriate, maybe 6 weeks late, but..... Don't trust anyone's status, no matter how well they look or feel.