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Re:New York Governor announces 100% workforce reduction for ... by quartzite on Friday March 20, 2020 @02:15PM (#22639910)
And the problem is that during an extended period of curve reduction there will still be people pushed out of medical care due to surging cases (but not spiking!). The total area between the number of patients and hospital capacity curves may be similar in both cases.
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Re:New York Governor announces 100% workforce reduction for ... by r00fus on Friday March 20, 2020 @03:12PM (#22640605)
This also assumes an invariant capacity. Extended period gives us the opportunity increase that capacity through means including getting folks trained as hospital techs (4 week training) and having local teams sew & build our filters and masks.

Essentially given a will, we could transition part of our economy to a war footing (against the virus). Do we have the will?

Or do we capitulate and decimate the population?

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