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No one says that the government should pretend everything is all right. It is about what policies you take. Should the mayor weld shut the entrance to a park t
by glofish 6y ago
No one says that the government should pretend everything is all right.
It is about what policies you take. Should the mayor weld shut the entrance to a park to "protect" the people?
- asdfasgasdgasdg 6y agoI'm all for the idea of more targeted mitigations. In hindsight, the play we should have made is obvious. The moment is became clear that a highly contagious virus was happening in China, we ought to have closed all borders, shut down, instituted mandatory quarantine (including for repatriating Americans), and eradicated the virus, keeping numbers at zero. We could have reopened and at least had a working domestic economy, like Mongolia or New Zealand. However, I don't think anyone has yet demonstrated working policy stances that effectively mitigate the spread of the virus and are materially different from what we're doing now. I've heard plenty of folks articulate the idea that such policies are possible, but I don't think we know enough about the virus to really be confident that they would work.