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I fear we are going to regret not taking draconian measures right now. Mandatory social distancing right now likely could buy additional time for the healthcare
by howmayiannoyyou 7y ago
I fear we are going to regret not taking draconian measures right now. Mandatory social distancing right now likely could buy additional time for the healthcare system to advance preparations for a wide scale outbreak, including stockpiling additional PPE and advancing triage procedures. It provides valuable time for drug & medical device manufacturers to ramp up production of needed supplies and drugs that should be proved effective in a few days or weeks. A 14 - 30 hold would do disproportionate good over potential damage.
- Loughla 7y agoFlip side of your argument, just for brevity's sake. I fear many governments and leaders are going to use this as an excuse to take full control and become the tin-pot dictators they want to be through those same draconian measures. So here we are.
- dharma1 7y agoI agree. Nothing will slow this down except isolation. Even if it's too early, better too early than too late. What's worse - everyone taking a month off to work from home and watch Netflix with their closest ones, or do nothing and risk high numbers of casualties and rapid spread?
- stevenwoo 7y agoThe outbreak started in one of the most authoritarian regimes in the world and it still spread (could not have more effective quarantine except in North Korea and the former Soviet republics) and there is no drug treatment (besides trying different current/experimental antivirals), only waiting out the infection. That cruise ship quarantine showed there is something else wrong as well since it appears either the test is faulty or people can be infected without triggering a positive test based on the people who got sick again after leaving quarantine.