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Re:Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius? by RealityVoid on Saturday March 14, 2020 @08:03PM (#22579779)
> Keep things going until it starts to replicate in the community, then get aggressive before the hospitals are overrun.

How is that not a bad strategy? By this point the disease will have some sort of transmission inertia, so establishing containment just before hospitals are overrun pretty much guarantees they will be overrun.

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Re:Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius? by wtvanhest on Saturday March 14, 2020 @09:33PM (#22580355)
We won’t know for 2 weeks. If the hospitals are overrun, that is a massive policy problem. If they aren’t, it’s a massive policy success.

Math was known and the results fall on our politicians

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