‘Everyone is dying’: Myanmar on the brink of decimation

by terminalcommand on 7/17/2021, 10:25 PM with 34 comments
  • by peteretep on 7/17/2021, 11:27 PM

    The situation there sounds dire, but this story is literally a set of WhatsApp messages turned into “news”.

    > One very reputable public health specialist expects that the population will be decimated by at least 10-15 million by the time Covid is done with Myanmar

    I really don’t think you can come up with a headline figure like that and then hand-wave away the actual source.

    My Bangkok dentist with an MPH from a good American university has been forwarding me Covid horror stories that are trivially debunked as fake news for the last 18 months — without names and verifiable quotes, the whole thing is worthless.

  • by BrissyCoder on 7/17/2021, 11:14 PM

    > One very reputable public health specialist expects that the population will be decimated by at least 10-15 million by the time Covid is done with Myanmar.

    The population is only 54 million. How could Covid possibly kill 15 million there!?

  • by anigbrowl on 7/17/2021, 11:02 PM

    One estimate provided by public health experts in Myanmar predicts that 50% of Myanmar’s 55 million people will be infected within three weeks by either the Alpha or Delta variant of Covid-19.

    One very reputable public health specialist expects that the population will be decimated by at least 10-15 million by the time Covid is done with Myanmar.

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  • by lousken on 7/18/2021, 1:31 AM