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Re:Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown by fizzledbits on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:52AM (#22749208)
It’s a false choice. Without a shutdown, do you think everyone will just start going back to restaurants? Will all businesses bring everyone back, filling up the elevators?

The purpose of shutdown is to drive absolute case numbers low enough for a new regime of contact tracing and testing to take over as the primary, far more granular means of fighting its spread.

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Re:Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown by stuff4ben on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @11:05AM (#22749381)
You're taking it to the extreme and ignoring the whole point I made. As has been said by the president, you can't have the cure worse than the disease. I want to see people argue that point. I get the whole flattening of the curve.
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