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Personal thoughts and first hand experience regarding the current corona situation...
I heard from a credible COVID authority, directly responsible for PCR testing, that all the numbers for the past few days are in fact cut in half. For example yesterday's 168 was truly almost 300.
COVID unit beds including intensive care units in all major centers, among which I have personally seen empty for the past few months, are now exponentially being occupied and will reach full capacity by early/mid August.
Blaming and pointing fingers to who's responsible for this resurge has been the epicenter of our concern over the weekend, completely disregarding the fact that the same situation is occurring on a global level with few exceptions
Like any major occurrence where the outcome is not directly tangible, people naturally will behave subjectively according to their personal risk appetite, level of paranoia and where they fall on the altruism spectrum unless strict punitive rules are set by a higher authority
As such, blaming people for going out carelessly, albeit warranted, is naïve in the context of a complicated psychosocial behaviour throwing people anywhere from being extremely paranoid or totally agnostic
Here comes the role of the government to set the rules to standardize social behaviour away from the mixed subjective opinions driving daily life
The ideal situation was proposed by a study performed at Harvard university which projected that a balanced strategy would be an intermittent lockdown driven by the available capacity of hospital beds at any point, meaning...
As soon as hospital bed capacity approaches the full capacity, the government will announce lockdown, giving hospitals a breath and buy time for beds to become vacant again
In our situation, adding a massive force like the detrimental socioeconomic crises, the government lies paralysed trying to choose between the lesser of two evils, transferring all the responsibility to an individual level driven by non-ideal binary psyche of human nature
The situation will get worse, the curve is taking an exponential turn and we feel abandoned and exhausted at all levels, the only source of hope is personal and social responsibility that can be induced by peer pressure
The last string attached is an attempt to set a social standard without the government, if you see someone without a mask, pressure them to wear it, take an initiative to ask people to keep distance, avoid evitable social interactions and normalize working from home when feasible
Some will be offended, but peer pressure goes a long way, modifying human behaviour is hard but not impossible, social norms change all the time and laws often lag behind, until we get a reliable vaccine or treatment to mass production, it is the era of social distancing
