Good sign: South Korea may be getting control of Coronavirus — is this the middle scenario future?

Watching South Korea — it appears to have stopped the exponential spread of Coronavirus

Heartening. At its peaks last Saturday and Tuesday, South Korea acquired 800 new infections per day. Since the, whatever it is doing, South Korea has managed to keep the new daily cases between 300-800. That may not sound like much, but in exponential terms it could have been a lot worse. Is this the future for us in the West? Perhaps with aggressive action, and local or statewide lockdowns, wealthy western nations may get outbreaks under control. Will we spend the next year with periodic major lockdowns as outbreaks occur, but manage to keep the virus from en masse spread without hospitals being overwhelmed? But can poor countries achieve this? If not, we will have to close flights to stop repeated debilitating and deadly outbreaks, while doing our best to help them. The world will become divided into nations which have this controlled, and those who don’t. This is still the pandemonium I’ve been talking about for six weeks; we could have avoided it, but it’s better than other scenarios. It’s a middle-run scenario.

We are fortunate that this is not as airborne and infectious as […]