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Or a shorter harder lockdown earlier on, combined with rigorous test and trace programme.
by DanBC 6y ago
Or a shorter harder lockdown earlier on, combined with rigorous test and trace programme.
- ska 6y agoI think it's pretty clear the best use of a lock down is to allow time to develop and improve the infrastructure and protocols to do this properly. But if you lack the competence or political/social will to do this properly, all you really have in the face of rising (or rising again) case numbers rolling lock downs and wait in hope of a vaccine. Or failing to manage it spectacularly, that also seems to be an option.
- salmon30salmon 6y agoTesting/tracing is very, very hard in the United States. In my own community, we have immigrants who are afraid to talk to the government at any level due to fears of deportation. You have the libertarians who refuse all but the most basic interactions with anything government. You have some other specific immigrant communities who are here legally, but have a deep, deep distrust of government due to abuses back in their original countries. Add in a language divide and a population strewn across many different jurisdictions (several major cities cross state/county lines) and it is just a mess.