I think its important to make the distinction that the countries that did manage 'well' thus far, testing is a part of that, but government intervention and lock down measures were also taken much more aggressively (and seriously). The population also heard this message much more loudly with recent experience related to SARS for example. To Clark's credit, and to mine and a lot of my fellow health care providers' opinions, we could see things escalating to this point weeks ago. The daily messages we receive from the Provincial Health Minister, and even our own employing health authorities locally, is probably lagging behind by a couple weeks. Clark wanted to see more aggressive action in January, I felt like 'we' were about 3-4 weeks late in implementing whatever measure we have done.
March 26, 2020, 3:19 p.m. - UFO
I think its important to make the distinction that the countries that did manage 'well' thus far, testing is a part of that, but government intervention and lock down measures were also taken much more aggressively (and seriously). The population also heard this message much more loudly with recent experience related to SARS for example. To Clark's credit, and to mine and a lot of my fellow health care providers' opinions, we could see things escalating to this point weeks ago. The daily messages we receive from the Provincial Health Minister, and even our own employing health authorities locally, is probably lagging behind by a couple weeks. Clark wanted to see more aggressive action in January, I felt like 'we' were about 3-4 weeks late in implementing whatever measure we have done.