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bohumm -> RE: Covid 19 and those infected (8/8/2020 9:17:54 AM)
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ORIGINAL: unome
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ORIGINAL: bohumm
The argument that we shut down and we can't afford to do it again is false. We didn't shut down while fully complying with universal infection control practices at the public health level; we've been uneven, sporadic, and incomplete from Day 1, and as long as we continue that path, our economy will continue to die the death of a thousand cuts. "I couldn't afford to make that necessary repair" turns into an exponentially more expensive necessary repair down the road that leads to other expensive repairs, compounding the problem.
We don't necessarily have to go all McMurphy at this point, but we need to go more there than where we are right now, or we will eventually have to go all McMurphy and maybe beyond eventually. Epidemiology is a complex discipline but getting it wrong leads to a simple outcome: the problem in its current form never goes away.
It is not false and you have not certainly not presented any evidence to this effect whatsoever.
Not that any of this even matters, because what you or McMurfy want won't happen.
The reality is that you are extremists in the same way some of the idiot Trumpers are extremists. You want all or nothing. Whether it is not wearing masks as a sort of constitutional right or shutting everything down as a panacea, these are both wrong headed and both will cost us so much in unneeded loss of life or economic resources.
Should Trump have done a better job in March and April? Sure, but he failed, and will likely be voted out of office because of it.
But, we do not need to be extreme. We can take smart moderate action. Any Governor in a state with a big COVID HAS TO take action on stuff like masks and shutting down obvious infectious activities. If he or she does not, the President should step in. He won't, but he should.
We can get this problem manageable, but we do not need a death from a thousand cuts or one big death blow; we need smart, prolonged, moderate action and we will have cases drop and we will not get the eventual backlash of loss of freedom you see from heavy handed government action.
Evidence: Current case levels.
Evidence: Worsening economic crisis.
Current economic czar: the virus.
Choices: take measures sufficient to tamp down transmission, test thoroughly and quickly, and contact trace, or, at best, continue on our current path with "smart, moderate action."
Current path: Out of control health crisis, deepening economic crisis.
How come Italy and Spain are on a completely different path than us right now?
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