Discuss - How is Mexico handling the pandemic?
Posted by Daniel H on February 13, 2021, 7:38 pm
Discuss - How is Mexico handling the pandemic? I could start it off, and will if necessary, but am more interested in others OPINIONS. If those opinions should have citations all the better, but not required. | -----------------------Re: Discuss - How is Mexico handling the pandemic?
Posted by Tanny on February 13, 2021, 8:03 pm, in reply to "Discuss - How is Mexico handling the pandemic?"
This is a world issue...how different countries are "handling" covid depends on so many factors from culture, religion, economic survivial, etc. Who am I to say if Mexico is doing the right things? We, each, must look into ourselves and determine, regardless of where we are, what is right for us as we continue safely down this new road. | -----------------------Re: Discuss - How is Mexico handling the pandemic?
Posted by EddieJ on February 13, 2021, 10:35 pm, in reply to "Discuss - How is Mexico handling the pandemic?"
The political response was much like other countries. A variety of precautions but life went on. The public response was different. Obiously, in this town, nobody paid much attention to the pandemic. The busineses had to follow directives to protect their licenses, but virtually everyone else went about life as normal. I had the pleasure of having doctors, nurses, dentists, and even a bioengineer as customers. One family of doctors came from Chihuahua for the rave at Boca. None of the professionals paid any attention to masks, social distancing or other measures. I asked the doctors about their level of concern. They replied that the hospitals were dangerous due to the number and severity of the cases. There, they used every precaution that was available. But here on the beach there was zero concern. We ate dinner with these people virtually every night. I have friends living in Guadalajara who had to live by the stricter rules due to density of population as well as size. They also had grand parents living with them and made extra effort to protect them - no need for directions from the state. To summarize, the people I met only complied with forced precautions. Otherwise, it was just normal living. I did see some Mexican tourists in town wearing masks, but they seemed to be in the minority. Just my experiences.
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Posted by Daniel H on February 15, 2021, 3:16 am, in reply to "Re: Discuss - How is Mexico handling the pandemic?" Edited by board administrator February 15, 2021, 3:53 am
The title of your link is - When will life return to normal? In 7 years at today's vaccine rates - "U.S. science officials such as Anthony Fauci have suggested it will take 70 per cent to 85 per cent coverage of the population for things to return to normal." 7.8 billion people on the planet 119 million shots given = 1.5 % of the population vaccinated so far. We are gonna need a bigger boat. There are manufacturing facilities all over the world that could be making the vaccine but are not. The heart of the reason is pharmaceuticals are not sharing how to make the vaccine and patent rights. The money or lives equation has always been a part of our world and is present in the decisions being made now. But I never really thought it would come to this. 20,000 people are dying a day, whole economies have been devastated, the world is in crisis and the problem we have is patent rights! "If a legal way is paved for other companies to produce the vaccines, the mechanics of producing them shouldn’t be a problem, according to de Gama. “The issue is not capacity,” he said. “We have producers and manufacturers." https://theintercept.com/2021/02/12/covid-vaccine-south-africa-apartheid/ "Mexico received one of its biggest COVID-19 vaccine shipments yet on Thursday, in the form of the active ingredient for 2 million doses of China’s CanSino shot......which will be packaged in the central state of Queretero" If Moderna and other vaccine producers took similar actions the problem would change from a supply side to a distribution side very quickly. and I know the people would rally to fix that. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-vaccine/our-gratitude-always-from-chinas-cansino-mexico-welcomes-one-of-its-biggest-vaccine-shipments-yet-idUSKBN2AB2LP | -----------------------Re: Discuss - How is Mexico handling the pandemic?
Posted by Pablo on February 15, 2021, 8:47 am, in reply to "Re: Discuss - How is Mexico handling the pandemic?"
Not quite as simple as it sounds to have other third-party companies just completely re-tool their factories to make new vaccines, assuming some of these factories might already be at capacity making other needed medicines. Patent rights do indeed come partly into play in this debate as clearly outlined in The Intercept article, but the link below delves a bit into some of the other distribution problems (quality control & testing, shipping & storage, medical infrastructure, ingredient supply chain, etc.). https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/vaccine/ct-nw-vaccine-production-explained-20210128-o35fgqhqzvddpbnsn5rv4irwjq-story.html Let's not forget that having so many approved (and pending) vaccines on the market and being distributed within only one year of this disease becoming known is completely unheard of in the history of epidemiology. So huge kudos to the many scientists who pulled out all the stops to even make this discussion possible. A world-wide vaccine rollout was always going to be difficult and will probably continue to be plagued by problems, but at least there's something to roll out, even while I wish it could happen at a faster and more equitable pace. At least this pandemic has given me more patience... As for the subject of this post, I'm not sure how to judge exactly how Mexico is handling the pandemic. Better than some, not as good as many? I guess the mitigation efforts and infection rate varies all over the country... | -----------------------Re: Discuss - How is Mexico handling the pandemic?
Posted by Red C on February 16, 2021, 8:33 pm, in reply to "Discuss - How is Mexico handling the pandemic?"
Mexico reminds me of Alfred R. Newman, "What? Me worry? AMLO and his cronies have been on the sidelines snipping at the government for so long, that now they are in control, they are lost without anyone to blame. Totally not prepared to run the country, let alone an added pandemic. Mexico will be lucky to recover economically in 6 or 7 years. If we are lucky, only 2 or 3 years for tourism. My dos centavos. rojo | ----------------------- |
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