> I'm sorry, but in the real world you have to make predictions in order to make decisions. I'll overlook the implication that I don't live in the 'real world'

> I'm sorry, but in the real world you have to make predictions in order to make decisions. I'll overlook the implication that I don't live in the 'real world'. What the statement means is that just because you're fine today you can ease up, because you really don't like the shutdown. You're still standing in an explosives factory, and now propose to shoot off bottle rockets just because nothing bad has happened today. In the real world, you look at conditions as they are. In this case, those conditions are that the virus is still epidemic and there are none of the preconditions necessary to contain it present in the US, at least, and also in most of Europe. > assuming you have testing and tracing capacity Where is it that you are describing, since you are 'in the real world'? Here in the US there is no where that I am aware of that has sufficient testing and tracing capacity to deal with a 3-week old exponential outbreak.