WHAT do you think about the CORONAVIRUS outbreak?

Better calibrate the authorities response to the real threat? OR better safe than sorry?

In the context of a potential international pandemic, the measures taken to stop the spreading of the coronavirus outbreak may be seen as:

A. exaggerated & overly restrictive (authorities should calibrate their response to the real dimension of the threat)

or

B. justified and absolutely necessary. (better safe than sorry)


What do you think?

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World Health Organisation #WHO anounced the name of the New #coronavirus: #covid19
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Let's talk about a future pandemic from our expert point of view: from a legal perspective, from a business perspective, from an HR perspective, from a medical perspective. 1. What happens with the CONTRACTS that can not be honored because of the Pan...
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Taking into consideration the spreading rate wich, in times of ever increasing connectivity and mobility, it's amplified to a "fat-tail" process, that makes conventional risk-management obsolete. Conventional individual-scale approaches are (isolatio...
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Written by Jeff W.
Much of the response is what we used to call "painting rocks" in the Military. That is, it's mostly for show, and to demonstrate that we are pon top of it, or at least doing something about it. there really is no way to stop a real pandemic. Yet the...
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China is China! ;-) https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/10/asia/china-security-police-wuhan-virus-intl-hnk/index.html
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Written by Don L.
While I'm glad the authorities are paying attention and so on, I think the only measures that would really slow the spread of an easily contagious virus would be massively disruptive of everyday life, freedom of movement, distribution of goods (inclu...
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