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Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by nradov on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @12:33AM (#23003397)
You have stated a plausible hypothesis. That's one step in the scientific method. Now do the rest of the steps. The actual math isn't so simple.

We all understand that in a crisis sometimes leaders have to take decisive action based on incomplete data. That's fine. Just don't dress it up with some fake veneer of "science".

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Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by rtkwe on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @09:53AM (#23006950)
No, we know limiting person to person contact will limit spread of diseases. The stay at home orders are a blunt instrument but they're implementing a very simple, well understood mechanism for reducing the spread of diseases.
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Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by sixstringtheory on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @01:21AM (#23003672)
I think the rest of the steps were done long ago. That’s when we discovered about infectious disease. Taking steps to slow spread is based on that science, AFAICT.
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