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Re:CDC says U.S. gatherings of over 50 people should be put off by JamesBarney on Sunday March 15, 2020 @10:25PM (#22589159)
A lot of countries thought they were taking that option like Italy, Spain, the UK, and the US. But eventually, Italy and Spain realized that there was no option 4 and they'd msitaken chosen option 3 so they switched to option 1.
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Re:CDC says U.S. gatherings of over 50 people should be put off by pdonis on Sunday March 15, 2020 @10:46PM (#22589284)
> A lot of countries thought they were taking that option

At least in the US, I think it's too early to tell what the outcome of that option is.

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Re:CDC says U.S. gatherings of over 50 people should be put off by JamesBarney on Sunday March 15, 2020 @10:56PM (#22589349)
Yeah, the issue is that the long lag time between infection and hospitalization combined with short doubling times means what once we order a lockdown it could get 20x worse before it gets better.
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Re:CDC says U.S. gatherings of over 50 people should be put off by eropple on Sunday March 15, 2020 @11:36PM (#22589602)
The die was cast well over a year ago, but the exponential function had us proper fucked a week ago.

We are not solving this through cleverness anymore, if it was ever on the table.

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