Thanks thats an honest image, I fell for their intentionally deceptive image that they used no doubt for impact.For those who haven't enough time to watch the full one minute video
theres prolly some effects the opposite way eg due to the drop of pollution, of course this would be very hard to measure though, also perhaps this would wake some ppl up to climate change etc (perhaps its better to act now spend billions than be forced to spend magnitudes more than that later on)
It wasn't deceptive at all. The video starts with them showing data on phones, and then looked at one example of Spring Break on one beach.
Like the old counting 'carbon footprint', it can get impossibly complicated. eg. Does it take more or less CO2 to cycle in the rain and then turn the heating on to dry out your clothes than to drive? What's the CO2 footprint of cycling if you eat bananas to cover the energy used versus bread? There'll be all sorts of gains and losses from Covid19 lockdowns.
I think it's one part hysteria, one part people being home 24/7 while food businesses are closed (you don't eat outside, you're bored and eat more, etc., not just stocking up food).
If obesity goes up as a result of lockdown, humanity deserves to get wiped out. Do people have zero self control? My sis just linked me a story of mountains of fresh food being thrown out for recycling. Morons panic-bought food they didn't want, then dumped it when it's past its best. Didn't even donate it to those who need it!
Agreed, but think many people are attempting to stock up so they can avoid stores for 2-3 weeks. I was amazed when I went to 3 supermarkets and saw the frozen vegetable sections complete empty. There is a lot of food people can freeze and many are hoarding and doing just that. We have an huge boat freezer in the garage that is far from full, but basically use for seafood, meats and a few frozen vegetables.
...which still is questionable, as we know cases where incubation period has been about double that.
That's an interesting point, and I think if it's always senior doctors making the call, it won't be psychological impactful. Triage is necessary and all through their careers they've had to make those tough decisions and switch off aspirators for those who cannot recover. Junior doctors might suffer but senior consultants can be utterly emotionless bastards (as they need to be) and just process the numbers, keeping emotionally distant from the patients. It becomes harder when you form a bond with the patient. With so many patients who aren't able to talk, that probably isn't happening much.
Iceland and South Korea relied on extensive collection of random samples, and tracking those found with the infection and finding who they came into contact with. So they started mapping who has, where there might be more infected, who has symptoms and who falls into the sensitive category. This meant they could quarantine smaller areas or only the people that had the infection and accommodate into hospitals only those cases that were in dangerous condition. Unlike Italy where they were taking in hospitals mild cases as well because they were in panic due to the unknown nature of the virus. It is important to think in terms of capacity control and queuing models not in terms of the worst case scenario before having the data. Thats what Iceland and Italy did.
Iceland is a bit of a fringe case though in terms of population and movements, no? Few other places can be expected to operate that way with far bigger populations and far more travel.