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It’s not way to late. The goal right now is to lower the rate of transmission to a point that the medical system can cope with it. We can still do that but ever
by erentz 7y ago
It’s not way to late. The goal right now is to lower the rate of transmission to a point that the medical system can cope with it. We can still do that but every extra week of delay makes the situation worse and means the point where the medical system is overwhelmed arrives will be sooner. If we close all schools and public events and restaurants and so forth right now, we maybe have two to three months before it starts to look overwhelmed. If we wait another week to do it. That will look more like 1 month. If we wait two weeks. It’ll look more or less like game over and we will need extremely draconian looking measures at that point to get the transmission rate down.