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Re:GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobiliz... by riffraff on Thursday March 19, 2020 @01:27AM (#22624775)
to be fair, you can adopt europe/wuhan-style total lockdown but you could also adopt developed-asia-style mass tracing.

The latter seems to have been way more effective in containing the epidemic and less impactful on the economy.

So, there was third option which saves both people and economy, but it's probably politically unfeasible.

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Re:GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobiliz... by thu2111 on Thursday March 19, 2020 @01:09PM (#22629462)
It's too early to evaluate the tracing approach. The problem is what happens when other people come in from the outside. This is now a major problem in Beijing; not internal transmission but cases brought by arrivals.
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