<story><title>Covid-19’s stop-gap solution until vaccines and antivirals are ready</title><url>https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2020-03/covid-19s-stop-gap-solution-until-vaccines-and-antivirals-are-ready</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>This crisis is the first event in my lifetime that&amp;#x27;s given me any optimism about our ability, as a global civilization, to solve problems and get things done. I don&amp;#x27;t feel like we&amp;#x27;ve seen humanity at its best in several decades. Shame it always takes a catastrophe (and an immediate one at that; see climate change) to bring it out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nikofeyn</author><text>&amp;gt; This crisis is the first event in my lifetime that&amp;#x27;s given me any optimism about our ability, as a global civilization, to solve problems and get things done.&lt;p&gt;would you mind elaborating? because i find it extremely difficult how one could hold such an optimistic and apparent naive opinion.&lt;p&gt;from where i sit, this crisis is showing the exact opposite. there is very little international communication and cooperation, and even internal to countries, like in the u.s., there is very little communication and cooperation. aside from a few outliers, the while thing has just been wave after wave of delayed and reactive actions that were underprepared to begin with.&lt;p&gt;people keep thinking we&amp;#x27;ll solve this with technology (the typical human way), but what would have been better is if everyone simply communicated, listened, and cooperated.&lt;p&gt;the human race could not face a &lt;i&gt;dumber&lt;/i&gt; enemy. think about it. if everyone on earth just sat still for a couple of weeks, this thing would just vanish. can you imagine a more simple foe? and yet, this thing is crippling econmies, healthcare, and more.</text></comment>
<story><title>Covid-19’s stop-gap solution until vaccines and antivirals are ready</title><url>https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2020-03/covid-19s-stop-gap-solution-until-vaccines-and-antivirals-are-ready</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>This crisis is the first event in my lifetime that&amp;#x27;s given me any optimism about our ability, as a global civilization, to solve problems and get things done. I don&amp;#x27;t feel like we&amp;#x27;ve seen humanity at its best in several decades. Shame it always takes a catastrophe (and an immediate one at that; see climate change) to bring it out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ehsankia</author><text>I think it has the potential to, but so far, there hasn&amp;#x27;t really much of it, or have I been missing it? Obviously progress is slow, but I think there&amp;#x27;s also a lot of fluff being thrown around, so we won&amp;#x27;t really know for some time.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t noticed any extra amount of cooperation though between countries, more so than the usual.</text></comment>