I agree that the headline case statistics are not useful for comparison. If you focus on severe/critical hospitalisation statistics you will have a better measure. And look at how many people on average died e.g last month vs. normal average from previous year.
DR should aim to maximise the amount of economic activity that doesn’t overwhelm their hospital system.
There are four main gaps between reported cases and actual cases:
- Insufficient testing: Countries that do not have the systems or capacity to test properly
- Yet to be reported cases: People who have the virus but are either: yet to show symptoms, yet to be tested, or had a test that showed a false negative
- Asymptomatic cases: Estimates are that around half of all people who get the virus will never show symptoms
- Deliberately under-reported: Some countries look to be deliberately under-reporting cases
The economic trade-off:
So far I am happy with my decision to go against my home country advise, and turned down their offer to have a ferry flight out. I preferred to remain here, understanding that I have to face the consequences.
- Humanitarian. The bigger the shutdowns, the greater the preventative measures, the fewer people will die.
- Economic. The bigger the shutdowns, the greater the preventative measures, the more significant the economic impact will be.
I agree with the decisions that the DR government has done so far, hospitals occupation and the number of deaths taken in consideration compared with many other countries.
But nobody knows how this will end. So far I am still enjoying my life in the DR, but hope the situation allows for more restrictions to be lifted soon.
I feel with those suffering, both financially and with illness/death.
Looking forward to enjoying everything DR has to offer again
I concur..... if mistakes are being made here.... they are the ones that many countries are experiencing
The reality is that here in RD nobody is aware if persons are dying because of the coronavirus, or if persons dying simply test positive for the corona virus.
Two separate and very different situations, which for whatever reason, most do not want to acknowledge.
They are not the same thing.
What is known after all this time, is that we are not seeing the same death tolls as elsewhere within the globe.
Again, the whole world suffers from this type of 'reporting'
Which in fact, may not be reporting at all as properly defined