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Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by CPLX on Monday April 27, 2020 @07:08PM (#23001241)
Yeah but this is like setting monetary policy without using interest rates or something. Or coming up with a government spending program and not even trying to do a quick analysis of how much it will cost. It's fucking insane.

Public policy requires metrics and stated goals, and requires that they not be secret. Without those it's not democracy.

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Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by srikanva on Monday April 27, 2020 @07:52PM (#23001655)
We're half-aligned. The decision-making process and the data used to inform it should be public, but I don't think we should be saying at this point "when we see these targets hit we will remove these measures." I think our knowledge is still too incomplete to set that target intelligently.
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