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> It does. We are seeing a dithering half-assed response to the pandemic in the USA. > If we're going to lock-down, we might as well do it until the crisis is
by ardy42 6y ago
> It does. We are seeing a dithering half-assed response to the pandemic in the USA.
> If we're going to lock-down, we might as well do it until the crisis is manageable.
Exactly. At the start of this it was made clear that lock-downs would be pointlessly destructive if they were eased back too quickly: we'd get all the economic pain for little gain against the virus. But it seems like that's roughly the course our leadership is taking...
- eanzenberg 6y agoThe lockdowns were pointless to begin with, where governors shut down all business but let 24/7 subways keep running. In addition, lockdown was only going to flatten the curve, not get rid of the virus. Point being to not overwhelm the medical system and increase IFR. The medical system in the US was never overwhelmed, not even close (40k ventilators demanded by NY, needed 1/5 of it). So, we spent $5T for the same effect of never needing to lockdown (look at countries that didn’t lock down), knowing we’d need to open up anyways because this is unsustainable.
- ryandrake 6y agoAlso, without enforcement, they were more like "stay at home suggestions" rather than stay at home orders. Tons of people around me are out and about, horsing around, and there's no change in traffic down my street. Everyone is treating it as a joke, and there's no enforcement, so it's pointless.
- eanzenberg 6y agoPointless, besides being $7T in the hole.
- ryandrake 6y agoGiven two choices: A: Don't do Stay At Home = Lots of people die + medium economic loss B: Strictly enforce Stay At Home = Fewer people die + large economic loss ...somehow America managed to choose: C: Half-ass Stay At Home = Lots of people die + large economic loss
- flukus 6y ago> The medical system in the US was never overwhelmed So you think the solution was pointless because it prevented the problem from ever occurring?
- rootusrootus 6y agoAt the start we still collectively believed it was about flattening the curve, not containment. For some reason a lot of folks have become convinced containment is/was a real possibility. A competent response from the gov't would be to bend all our resources during the lockdown phase towards correcting our ill-preparedness.