Re:Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents hav...
by maxerickson on Thursday April 23, 2020 @07:20PM
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It's not like business was going to go on as normal when people started filling up hospitals.
The lock down was a choice between what we are going through now and a much worse disaster if the spread continued through a couple more doublings. Of course the extreme stay at home orders should be continued for as short a time as possible, but what we do next also doesn't have to be exactly what we were doing before (and realistically won't be).
My impression at the moment is that containment isn't going to happen, but mostly because people don't want to bother, not because it is the more costly alternative or impractical. Given the lack of appetite to test and isolate, we had better all start doing things like wearing masks.
Note that ~80% of American's favor the stay at home orders right now. It's not a partisan issue, it's an issue where a loud minority is getting some attention from the media.
The lock down was a choice between what we are going through now and a much worse disaster if the spread continued through a couple more doublings. Of course the extreme stay at home orders should be continued for as short a time as possible, but what we do next also doesn't have to be exactly what we were doing before (and realistically won't be).
My impression at the moment is that containment isn't going to happen, but mostly because people don't want to bother, not because it is the more costly alternative or impractical. Given the lack of appetite to test and isolate, we had better all start doing things like wearing masks.
Note that ~80% of American's favor the stay at home orders right now. It's not a partisan issue, it's an issue where a loud minority is getting some attention from the media.