{"id":2458,"date":"2020-03-11T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/coronavuris_act_now_031120\/"},"modified":"2020-03-11T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T13:36:00","slug":"coronavuris_act_now_031120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/coronavuris_act_now_031120\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Highly-respected writer Tomas Pueyo&nbsp;conducts a <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@tomaspueyo\/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bone-chilling analysis<\/a> on the speed of Coronavirus spread if we don&#8217;t act now.&nbsp; Just observing the cases in China show how rapidly the virus stopped spreading as soon as it was locked down.&nbsp; These were his conclusions:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"\/storage\/app\/media\/2020\/corona scare.png\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s examine some of the data highlights from his research &#8211; all based on real-time data being reported in the virus spread.&nbsp; Firstly, see how quickly the number of cases in Hubei&nbsp;Province declines once the government implemented its lockdown:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"\/storage\/app\/media\/2020\/Timeline_Hubei.png\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/storage\/app\/media\/2020\/Timeline_Hubei.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Enlarge<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Pueyo goes on to perform some data modeling to show how sensitive every single day can be when implementing social distancing:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/storage\/app\/media\/2020\/social%20distancing.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/storage\/app\/media\/2020\/social distancing.png\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"\/storage\/app\/media\/2020\/social%20distancing.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Enlarge<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold; color: #f26418;\">The Bottom-Line:&nbsp; Social distancing policies&nbsp;reduce the exponential spread to the most vulnerable<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In short, we need to buy time to make sure the elderly and young people do not catch this.&nbsp; The data from Taiwan already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/independentpremium\/world\/coronavirus-news-taiwan-china-outbreak-map-how-to-avoid-a9392631.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shows<\/a> how effective social distancing&nbsp;and travel restrictions&nbsp;can be if implemented immediately as the country currently has the lowest incidence rate per capita.&nbsp; The broad data set from Hubei&nbsp;clearly tells us that, although the government acted late, its impact on decreasing the spread was massive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While most businesses in our industry must be commended for enforcing swift travel restrictions&nbsp;and events cancellations, the same cannot be said for many governments which seem to be adopting more of a &#8220;wait and see&#8221; policy. 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