I find it somewhat disturbing that the further away from China the virus travels the less prepared the countries seem to be and the larger their expected death toll is predicted. So we have it moving early to Italy with nasty results and now expanding in the USA with even higher predicted fatalities.
And yet there is this example South Korea which was infected early, has followed test test and quarantine and has not had a lockdown yet they appear to be the only country in the developed world that has followed this strategy, despite it apparently seems to be the least destructive strategy that is actually working, leaving China aside for the moment.
So in the UK we have a lockdown, have largely given up on test and trace, didn't anyhow develop the testing resources to be able to do it, and are now stating 20,000 fatalities would be a good result. And the USA where the infections now seem out of control and the expected fatalities it seems will dwarf the ROW results in part because of zero preparations.
And around the world there are the same issues, shortages of PPE for medical and care staff, shortages of ventilators, misguided political leaders, shortages of testing resources, confusing lockdown instructions and the virus running riot though unprepared and defenceless populations.
One might have thought that countries with later infections, the UK, the USA etc, might have used their delay to prepare more thoroughly, to be ready for the fight, to have resources available and to have managed to have kept the worst of this outbreak at bay. Might have thought, but it isn't that way in practice.
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