Here in South Australia it's a bit like On the Beach, if you remember that old thing: waiting at the edge of the world for the fallout to arrive. Just ~200 cases, a couple in intensive care, no deaths yet, most cases are imports, just one "community transmission". But the horizon is darkening ...
Just hope that the govt and its medical advisors are using the time wisely and eg planning to emulate South Korea rather than Europe.
On a positive note, the do seem to have been pretty well prepared so far. Testing rate appears to be higher than even South Korea - about 12,000 per million, maybe 10X the UK level from numbers a few days ago. And the positivity rate is <1%, lower than just about everywhere, so hopefully most cases are actually being picked up, contacts traced and isolated. (Unlike the UK, where no surprise if the actual infection rate is 10X the reported detections.)
The hospital 100m from me is being re-purposed for mild/moderated coronavirus cases, so hopefully that's another WHO recommendation which will be followed: put cases in dedicated facilities, don't send them home to infect families and neighbours.
Fingers crossed, but it's tense enough, and the shutdowns are going to be really grim for the economy for an unknown length of time (and my work, which deals with fragile tech start-ups ...).
But then after we beat this thing, which we will, it's going to feel *so good*, and economically the liquidty tap will be turned to "flood" & it will be boom times again like after every other crisis in the last 40 years.
