Re:Shelter in place for Bay Area counties
by Gibbon1 on Monday March 16, 2020 @06:00PM
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Friends partners family in China were under lockdown for two months as the Chinese got a handle on getting testing up and running. I think the big reason for lock down is to break the transmission chains from a large diffuse network into a bunch of small poorly connected islands. If you do that the disease starts to burn itself out. Uninfected islands stay that way. Infected ones quickly develop heard immunity.
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Makes sense. I'm afraid we're about to be at the point where a large portion of the US will need to shelter in place. I can't imagine us being able to do something like that for 2 months though.
Re:Shelter in place for Bay Area counties
by shartshooter on Monday March 16, 2020 @07:11PM
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We’ve been fortunate in the US to not have to shelter in place for an extended period of time in our history. We’ll get through this, just like everything else.
It’ll take time, too many will die, but instead of remembering that most folks will likely complain about being stuck at home.
Weddings/concerts/flights are all cancelled and the only way to get things back on track is to shelter in place long enough for us to get testing up and running and to isolate the virus.
Half measures in this situation just won’t cut it and the longer we take to accept that, the more will die.
Caveat: I’m a fortunate person who has the ability to work remotely. I realize that many don’t have enough savings to make it through a week, much less two months. I hope our safety net is there to support them as well as the business owners who will all be severely impacted.