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Not all cities issued a shelter in place in California at the same time. Bay Area was early, and then the state issued one a week later. You think you’d see a h
by tempsy 7y ago
Not all cities issued a shelter in place in California at the same time. Bay Area was early, and then the state issued one a week later. You think you’d see a hot spot somewhere in the state but doesn’t appear to be the case. Unclear to me that SIP is the main reason why we have few cases vs if we just required face masks and social distancing while keeping more businesses open.
- thaumaturgy 7y agoYeah, fwiw I would not argue with someone that claimed that nobody has a complete picture of all of the factors in the virus's infection rate. There has been a lot of conflicting and incomplete information and it's been difficult to stay up-to-date. It might be that there's some sort of difference between California and New York or northern Italy that would make California far less susceptible. Maybe environmental, or demographic, who knows. The problem though is that we don't know that California would somehow turn out differently, and because of this thing's damnable asymptomatic incubation period and rates of spread, by the time you realize you haven't taken it seriously enough, it's going to be very bad. So imagine you're sitting at the table with the governor and CalOES. They're asking you to make a decision today: tank the economy, or not. In two weeks you get to see how it turned out: either you saved the economy and only several hundred people died, or several thousand people have died and your healthcare system is on the verge of collapse and the economy tanked anyway because sick and dead people don't do a lot of shopping.