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Once testing is widely available, I hope to see wearing masks in public as a precondition for ending lock-downs/quarantines and returning to normal life. This
by tcbawo 7y ago
Once testing is widely available, I hope to see wearing masks in public as a precondition for ending lock-downs/quarantines and returning to normal life. This might be something most state governments of all stripes could sign onto.
- crazygringo 7y agoWhy? And for how long? As long as the curve has been "flattened" and the health care system is under capacity, what are you hoping to achieve?
- sjg007 7y agoNot being that guy in the ICU? I mean, seriously?
- tcbawo 7y agoUntil new community-acquired infections disappear or are severely reduced. We want the epidemic to fizzle out by reducing R0 before the pressure to reopen the economy becomes so great that it begins to spread nationally again. The disease has already had a multitude of mutations. We really don't want to keep it circulating and coming back like the flu, especially if new strains overcome immunity.
- maxander 7y ago"As long as the health care system is under capacity" is about a week or so at best, in much of the U.S., and not much longer (or already past) in many other places. And it's going to stay that way for awhile - outside China and Korea, the best news we have so far is the rate of new cases in some places has stopped increasing exponentially.