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That seems like the exact gamble. IMO, the US has taken the right approach. Keep things going until it starts to replicate in the community, then get aggressiv
by wtvanhest 7y ago
That seems like the exact gamble. IMO, the US has taken the right approach. Keep things going until it starts to replicate in the community, then get aggressive before the hospitals are overrun.
Some communities will have too many cases, but most will hopefully be ok. And we will have a first step of Hurd immunity, concentrated on people most likely to transmit later like package delivery, restaurant workers, drivers etc.
The US should have had testing procedure set up early to relieve stress for citizens.
- RealityVoid 7y ago> Keep things going until it starts to replicate in the community, then get aggressive before the hospitals are overrun. How is that not a bad strategy? By this point the disease will have some sort of transmission inertia, so establishing containment just before hospitals are overrun pretty much guarantees they will be overrun.
- wtvanhest 7y agoWe won’t know for 2 weeks. If the hospitals are overrun, that is a massive policy problem. If they aren’t, it’s a massive policy success. Math was known and the results fall on our politicians
- tim333 7y agoThe US approach has been awful. Things are running completely out of control. The "aggressive before the hospitals are overrun" thing won't work. Herd immunity means something like 60% of the population get it and maybe 1.3 million Americans die ghastly deaths.