California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulative total passes 20k

Re:California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulativ... by kelnos on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @06:12PM (#23621018)

I think the goal a couple/few months ago was #2, but in the meantime we've learned that there might be some bad long-term consequences to contracting the disease that weren't previously known, like possible permanent respiratory damage.

Without that, then we shouldn't be too worried about getting the disease as long as we keep transmission rates low enough so hospitals don't get overwhelmed. But if some people end up with long-term respiratory issues after contracting the disease, now there's a reason to keep people from getting it, period, regardless of hospital capacity.

But it would be nice to hear these goals actually articulated by public health officials. I'm not sure if my above paragraph is actually what any public health officials are thinking or are worried about (I'm just guessing), but it would be nice to know, because I agree with you that there seems to be a lack of "goal clarity" at this point.

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Re:California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulativ... by SpicyLemonZest on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @09:51PM (#23623018)

All American public health officials I've heard have been pretty clear about their goals: we're trying to titrate our social distancing, finding the least severe restrictions necessary to keep cases from spiraling out of control and then staying there until a vaccine. There were some early proposals to drive the pandemic extinct before reopening, but they've been uniformly abandoned in the US because they weren't working.

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