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> Again: Contact tracing (with intervention) is not only a reasonable solution, it's basically the only current viable option to get going outside of a cure or

> Again: Contact tracing (with intervention) is not only a reasonable solution, it's basically the only current viable option to get going outside of a cure or vaccine. Based on the rest of your comment, I am having trouble understanding how this statement is related. IMO the rest of your argument very clearly explains why the economy is interconnected; and could even be said to be an argument for the need to re-open the economy. However, it does not address how contact tracing would be a part of this. Is it your assumption that "if we implement contact tracing, then we can safely send people back to work, thus saving the economy"? If so, I think your argument would benefit from more explicitly contacting those dots.

jariel 6y ago
I assume that people understand that the 'contact tracing' strategy, borne out of Korea, implies no lock-down. There's not much point in 'contact tracing' if we have everyone locked in their homes. But yes it could have been more clear, though I'm three comments deep here and it was in my original. Korea and Taiwan really are the only countries to have contained Coronavirus without 'total lock-down' policies. Taiwan has eradicated it and now controls everyone coming to the island to make sure there are no new infections. Korea uses the contact tracing approach. As Western nations try to 'lift' the restrictions over the next few weeks, it does not bode well - there's no reason to believe Covid won't just bounce back. Nothing really has changed from several weeks ago before the lock-downs when there was 'social distancing' but Covid was still exploding. Perhaps the weather is a little warmer, we have more testing capability, people are a little smarter ... but there's nothing on the policy front that indicates a new approach, we have not identified spread vectors or primary means of infection. We're just going back to 'basic social distancing' which didn't work well. We need to look to Korea it's the only exemplary system and it relies on contact tracing.

jariel 6y ago

I assume that people understand that the 'contact tracing' strategy, borne out of Korea, implies no lock-down. There's not much point in 'contact tracing' if we have everyone locked in their homes. But yes it could have been more clear, though I'm three comments deep here and it was in my original. Korea and Taiwan really are the only countries to have contained Coronavirus without 'total lock-down' policies. Taiwan has eradicated it and now controls everyone coming to the island to make sure there are no new infections. Korea uses the contact tracing approach. As Western nations try to 'lift' the restrictions over the next few weeks, it does not bode well - there's no reason to believe Covid won't just bounce back. Nothing really has changed from several weeks ago before the lock-downs when there was 'social distancing' but Covid was still exploding. Perhaps the weather is a little warmer, we have more testing capability, people are a little smarter ... but there's nothing on the policy front that indicates a new approach, we have not identified spread vectors or primary means of infection. We're just going back to 'basic social distancing' which didn't work well. We need to look to Korea it's the only exemplary system and it relies on contact tracing.