49526 - The endurance of strategic medicine

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Athina Kehagias

Many are wondering if the measures are necessary and effective.
The answer is simple and clear.
Yes, of course they are necessary.
Now as far as the effectiveness in concerned, that depends entirely upon the in actual fact implementation of the measures.
We ought to understand at this point that the countries which have passed through the first wave of the pandemia are quite rare.
We are observing that China is now stabilized, that South Korea approaches her, although the progression hasn’t reached an end, and that Japan is resisting well.
Whereas Italy and Spain are still in upsurge phase, even though isolation measures have begun to bring results.
As for the other countries such as Germany and France they are within the battle.
Whereas the USA are now understanding the extent of the phenomenon, while Persia is facing huge problems.
Other countries were under the impression that they would avoid the pandemia.
That was a purely simplistic approach.
And the first reason derives from the criminal misinformation from the communist regime of China, which did not want to be accused.
While the cases which originally existed would have been manageable without a pandemia, the Chinese authorities allowed everyone to move everywhere, and especially overseas through the airways.
That is how the pandemia arrived, which touches upon all the countries of the world without exception.
Consequently, measures have emerged which constitute the decisions of strategic medicine that ought to deal with everyone, and not merely the patients, because the magnitude and the number of cases and deaths are causing damage to hospital structures.
We are in fact talking about war situations in many countries whereas others are preparing for it.
Unfortunately, medical structures seem to have difficulty in taking strategic decisions, and when they do, it’s usually too late.
The same is applicable to the institutional and political structures, which find it difficult to persuade the population.
However at a humane level, more effective measures ought to be taken in order for strategic medicine to become enduring.