Covid-19 twice as contagious as previously thought

Re:Covid-19 twice as contagious as previously thought – CDC ... by fullshark on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @08:30PM (#22818657)

I think it will go sour within a month maximum, anger is already bubbling. The numbers with shelter in place are trending toward fewer deaths than a bad flu season. Going to be hard to convince people to shelter in place much longer paradoxically with those types of numbers in early May.

Stimulus helps, but a clear exit strategy for reopening segments of the economy is going to have to be presented.

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Re:Covid-19 twice as contagious as previously thought – CDC ... by jariel on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @08:43PM (#22818739)

Fully agree. Now that we have actually 'flattened the curve' more than likely due to our actual behaviour 'things don't look so bad'. I am already feeling that and it's affecting my behaviour: today I almost bought take-out, whereas 3 days ago my personal policy was 'no'.

Given the reality of '2cnd wave' and also the gov. is going to run out of money to print and special programs, the next few months of 'undoing the ratchet carefully' is going to be the public/PR exercise of a lifetime. We'll be studying it literally for generations.

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