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you can't lockdown too quickly, because you need a plan for removing the lockdown, otherwise you have to stay on lockdown forever. In this epidemic the lockdow

you can't lockdown too quickly, because you need a plan for removing the lockdown, otherwise you have to stay on lockdown forever. In this epidemic the lockdown is meant to avoid overwhelming the medical system while we get herd immunity (by contamination and eventually vaccines) in the general population for when we remove it.

shalmanese 7y ago
You don't have to lockdown but you should be gathering evidence and preparing contingency plans for different scenarios. The saddest shit ever is I assumed this was all going on behind the scenes and serious people in serious suits were sitting in serious meetings looking at all the China data and drawing up plans that would all get revealed to the public at the right time. The last few weeks have been a sad disconfirmation that this is not the case. If even world leaders are getting this, it's strong evidence that nobody in their government has any fucking clue what they're doing (or at least the people with the fucking clue were not empowered to act). Trump holds a press conference announcing this is a national emergency and even during the press conference, people were standing less than 1m apart, people were constantly touching their face, each speaker adjusted the microphone at the exact same spot and touched the podium at the exact same spot without sterilizing in between, nobody was wearing a mask and everyone was shaking hands except ONE person who did the elbow bump. Sure, some of this can be attributed to optics but they should also be demonstrating best practices if they want others to be taking those best practices seriously.
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xbmcuser 7y ago
Lockdown would not have been needed if aggressive testing was done from the start. And infected people and those they had interacted with been isolated. Lockdown comes a lot later.

shalmanese 7y ago

You don't have to lockdown but you should be gathering evidence and preparing contingency plans for different scenarios. The saddest shit ever is I assumed this was all going on behind the scenes and serious people in serious suits were sitting in serious meetings looking at all the China data and drawing up plans that would all get revealed to the public at the right time. The last few weeks have been a sad disconfirmation that this is not the case. If even world leaders are getting this, it's strong evidence that nobody in their government has any fucking clue what they're doing (or at least the people with the fucking clue were not empowered to act). Trump holds a press conference announcing this is a national emergency and even during the press conference, people were standing less than 1m apart, people were constantly touching their face, each speaker adjusted the microphone at the exact same spot and touched the podium at the exact same spot without sterilizing in between, nobody was wearing a mask and everyone was shaking hands except ONE person who did the elbow bump. Sure, some of this can be attributed to optics but they should also be demonstrating best practices if they want others to be taking those best practices seriously.

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xbmcuser 7y ago

Lockdown would not have been needed if aggressive testing was done from the start. And infected people and those they had interacted with been isolated. Lockdown comes a lot later.