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(03-18-2020 09:12 AM)RunningGame Wrote:  

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(03-17-2020 10:17 AM)Nacho Wrote:  

(03-17-2020 09:19 AM)RunningGame Wrote:  I'm almost certainly the most conservative guy in here, but I think these steps are largely worth it.

However, I would make it a little more drastic and limit it to 14 days. Give everyone but the essentials a two-week vacation to limit the spread. Go back to work with heightened cleaning measures, then revisit based on the numbers with much higher testing capacity.

I've been following this since January, and I knew something like this was coming. However, you are right that this is not Ebola or Nipah or even Cholera, and 200 years ago this would be but a blip in everyone's daily lives of dodging dysentery and smallpox. I wonder if we are overreacting a little too much if we're shutting thing down for MONTHS, instead of the incubation period.

I agree. I wish we'd just rip the band aid off and go into quarantine for two weeks. Quarantine is going to happen eventually. Delaying the inevitable is just making the situation worse.

I too have been following the situation closely and was mocked by friends, family and co-workers early last week when I told everyone to go get supplies. My boss even gave me a big speech about how little the corona virus would impact our lives in the USA. Not even 3 days after that conversation schools were shutting down, sports were cancelled, and social distancing campaign began.

And yet here we are, people still aren't taking this as seriously as they should.

Theoretically, if everyone in the country was quarantined for two weeks, stating now, and without exception, the virus would be close to gone. If it is going to happen, lets do it now and get it over with.

Most of what I read indicates this not to be the case. Couple of problems: 1. the whole world is not handling this the same way. We could lock down America for 2 weeks or so and more or less eradicate this, but once travel resumes it will be back. 2. We can't quite literally lock everyone down. There are still a lot of workers, in healthcare, food supply, utility supply, construction, etc. who will be exempt. And because of the way the symptoms work (many people asymptomatic but carrying for 4 days or sometimes the length of the infection), those workers will continue to pass thid along.

That's why most medical authorities seem to advise against a full lockdown. We can't eradicate. Just slow down. So stay home as much as your circumstances possibly permit, is the basic deal.

I wish people could be reasonable and listen to that without being forced to..

Yes, international travel does pose a big problem. However, we could even allow it so long as we put travelers in quarantine.

I think I we can follow South Korea or Japan’s model, we just need to buy time for a massive and unprecedented buildup of testing capability, at which point you don’t need massive lockdowns.

We'r'e way behind in testing, that's one of the major problems. Those who are infected do not know it, and even if they're following all the rules and are limiting social contact as much as possible, they could still be spreading it because they are not in a full quarantine. We need tests available everywhere and for free so that we can get a handle on what is actually going on.