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"We will be fighting this with social distancing until there is a vaccine." Well, not really. We can also fight it by producing more needed medical supplies, d
by standardUser 7y ago
"We will be fighting this with social distancing until there is a vaccine."
Well, not really. We can also fight it by producing more needed medical supplies, developing better treatments and expanding hospital capacity. We aren't just trying to influence the curve, but also the line we are trying to keep the curve under. And some nations have had luck flattening the curve using testing and tracing (but the US does not seem to be interested in this approach for some reason). It's also worth considering that the level of social distancing is not fixed. There is a wide range of options between universal quarantine and business as usual.
- jellicle 7y agoOkay, so if I promise you you'd have a hospital bed and a ventilator for your last week on Earth, you'd go let some infected people cough in your face? If your answer is no, you're still worried about the consequences of infection including death and permanent disability, then the public is still going to want to avoid infections even if ICU beds were completely unlimited.
- SpicyLemonZest 7y agoI don't think anyone's proposing a policy where the public will be forbidden from social distancing if they want to.
- ADefenestrator 7y agoThe US was too little and too late with testing for contact tracing to work. It might become possible again if the number of cases gets low enough, though.