Beware second waves of Covid-19 if lockdowns eased early: study

Re:Beware second waves of Covid-19 if lockdowns eased early:... by logicchains on Thursday March 26, 2020 @08:37PM (#22699453)

This article has a nice solution: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/opinion/coronavirus-depre... . Take some of the trillions of dollars that will be spent on bailout, and spend it on building a never-before-seen amount of protective equipment. Once we have enough for everybody to wear a new heavy-duty protective suit every day, people could go back to work. It might be expensive, but still way cheaper than shutting the economy down an extra month or two.

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Re:Beware second waves of Covid-19 if lockdowns eased early:... by refurb on Thursday March 26, 2020 @08:39PM (#22699465)

There is one wrinkle to that idea - compliance.

Even if we did give everyone protective suits, I can guaranteed a not insignificant percentage of the country wouldn't play along.

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Re:Beware second waves of Covid-19 if lockdowns eased early:... by wincy on Thursday March 26, 2020 @08:44PM (#22699492)

My family and I went on a walk and everyone was social distancing, then some guy jogged right past us like he didn’t care at all. Pretty annoying.

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Re:Beware second waves of Covid-19 if lockdowns eased early:... by joaomacp on Thursday March 26, 2020 @08:56PM (#22699552)

If only you were in China and could report on him for bad behavior...

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Re:Beware second waves of Covid-19 if lockdowns eased early:... by logicchains on Thursday March 26, 2020 @08:47PM (#22699523)

The nice thing is, assuming the suits work correctly, it doesn't matter if other people comply. As long as you wear a suit, you'll be safe.

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Re:Beware second waves of Covid-19 if lockdowns eased early:... by macintux on Thursday March 26, 2020 @09:14PM (#22699663)

We’re back to the core problem of this virus: it’s not that you have a very high chance of dying from it, it’s that our system isn’t scoped to handle the high hospitalization rates.

I can wear a suit, but I’m still impacted if our hospitals are overwhelmed and FEMA runs out of ice trucks for the bodies.

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Re:Beware second waves of Covid-19 if lockdowns eased early:... by Wowfunhappy on Thursday March 26, 2020 @08:45PM (#22699501)

Personally, I'm not going to eat at a restaurant if I have to do it in a protective suit. It's more pleasant at that point to just stay home.

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Re:Beware second waves of Covid-19 if lockdowns eased early:... by anonsubmit2671 on Thursday March 26, 2020 @08:43PM (#22699490)

PPE isn't perfect or a magical panacea. Ask Craig Spencer, the NY ER doc who worked with Ebola in Africa, how he got it despite being careful.

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Re:Beware second waves of Covid-19 if lockdowns eased early:... by logicchains on Thursday March 26, 2020 @08:49PM (#22699529)

>PPE isn't perfect or a magical panacea.

Maybe if we invested a trillion dollars (which is an absurd amount of money) into developing and improving it, it would be.

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Re:Beware second waves of Covid-19 if lockdowns eased early:... by jandrese on Thursday March 26, 2020 @09:17PM (#22699680)

The lag time between that much money turning into a country-size amount of equipment that can be used by ordinary people without error might well be longer than the quarantine period.

I've seen some manufacturing miracles, but that's a really tall order.

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Re:Beware second waves of Covid-19 if lockdowns eased early:... by Balgair on Friday March 27, 2020 @12:57PM (#22704554)

> that can be used by ordinary people without error

Social media has been great for airline oxygen mask designers as it has shown the failure rates of real world emergencies. I imagine that even with highly trained people like medical staff, the problems of proper PPE usage are just so much worse. People have a really hard time understanding things clearly.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/18/passengers-fail-to-wear-oxyg...

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