The Virus Can Be Stopped, but Only with Harsh Steps, Experts Say

Re:The Virus Can Be Stopped, but Only with Harsh Steps, Expe... by glofish on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:30AM (#22663385)

perhaps what you are missing is that even lesser measures could have massive impacts,

- do we need to take the temperature of everyone at each hour? almost certainly not. Should you be reporting in from every location? almost certainly not. Should we be treating each other as bioweapons all in the name of "safety"? absolutely not.

- is it good if mobility is reduced? almost certainly it has a massive effect.

I think the right course of action is to give all these measures some time to work. Let's stop adding yet another measure and keep making the ones that exist better.

Epidemiologists need to chill out a bit and stop treating a society as a mathematical model or molecules bouncing around in a container.

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Re:The Virus Can Be Stopped, but Only with Harsh Steps, Expe... by simias on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:48AM (#22663547)

Modeling the spread of a virus is insanely complex and all existing models are certainly flawed one way or the other but doing nothing and just see what happens doesn't seem very rational to me. As more data comes in, models improves and we can adjust the response.

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Re:The Virus Can Be Stopped, but Only with Harsh Steps, Expe... by glofish on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @08:49PM (#22680807)

I did not advocate "doing nothing" instead I said let's see what the current measures are doing.

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