Re:What it’s like to go into lockdown for the second time
by SpicyLemonZest on Saturday August 15, 2020 @07:11PM
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In most countries, maintaining the minimum restrictions needed to get R~=1 is a deliberate policy choice, not something that's happening by accident.
Re:What it’s like to go into lockdown for the second time
by tunesmith on Saturday August 15, 2020 @08:22PM
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Are they all daft? How does that make sense? R~=1 can have a low amplitude or a high amplitude. The goal should be to make the slope go down at least until contact tracing can be achieved. We have states in the US where R~=1 still means test shortages.
Re:What it’s like to go into lockdown for the second time
by SpicyLemonZest on Saturday August 15, 2020 @08:32PM
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Most countries' health authorities don't believe that any achievable level of infection can be controlled through contact tracing alone, so they're aiming to find an acceptable equilibrium for the next year or two until a vaccine can be widely deployed.
What's been mystifying me is all the R0 graphs. They go up above 1, regions get more strict, they flatten, then slope down to around R0=1....
and then they flatten out again. Right at around R0=1.
It's maddening. We should keep it sloping down beyond that point.