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I feel like a lot of scientists have been saying this. Maybe not as explicitly, though, which can be part of the problem. Even Fauci keeps talking about how we

I feel like a lot of scientists have been saying this. Maybe not as explicitly, though, which can be part of the problem. Even Fauci keeps talking about how we didn't really lock down hard enough. It makes sense. If individuals are supposed to quarantine for two weeks when they're exposed, then if everyone quarantined for the same two weeks, it would be gone. Obviously you can't do a true, 100%, lockdown like that, but the logic is there: the harder the lockdown, the shorter it needs to be; the looser the lockdown, the longer it'll be before this thing gets better.

JacksonGariety 6y ago
> Obviously you can't do a true, 100%, lockdown like that If you're willing to ration food and other resources, a lot of options open up. Nobody wants to rip the bandaid off, though, so we're stuck in limbo.
- ragnese 6y ago
  You can't shutdown hospital ER rooms, etc, though. You can't totally turn off all military bases, 911 dispatchers, fire fighters, etc. The rest of us schmoes, yes.
- petre 6y ago
  How/where does one lock down homeless people?
  - Alupis 6y ago
    > How/where does one lock down homeless people? In $8,000 per month hotel rooms, of course![1] [1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-s-hotels-for-the-homeless-program-is-15598897.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-s-hotels-for...
Alupis 6y ago
> It makes sense. If individuals are supposed to quarantine for two weeks when they're exposed, then if everyone quarantined for the same two weeks, it would be gone. Until the next airplane or ship or whatever arrives from any country in the world and has one infected person on it. Then we start all this madness again. The cure cannot be worse than the disease.
- ragnese 6y ago
  If you read the next sentence you would see that I was obviously not imagining such a thing was possible. I was just talking about the technical/theoretical way the logic works.

JacksonGariety 6y ago

> Obviously you can't do a true, 100%, lockdown like that If you're willing to ration food and other resources, a lot of options open up. Nobody wants to rip the bandaid off, though, so we're stuck in limbo.

ragnese 6y ago
You can't shutdown hospital ER rooms, etc, though. You can't totally turn off all military bases, 911 dispatchers, fire fighters, etc. The rest of us schmoes, yes.
petre 6y ago
How/where does one lock down homeless people?
- Alupis 6y ago
  > How/where does one lock down homeless people? In $8,000 per month hotel rooms, of course![1] [1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-s-hotels-for-the-homeless-program-is-15598897.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-s-hotels-for...

Alupis 6y ago

> It makes sense. If individuals are supposed to quarantine for two weeks when they're exposed, then if everyone quarantined for the same two weeks, it would be gone. Until the next airplane or ship or whatever arrives from any country in the world and has one infected person on it. Then we start all this madness again. The cure cannot be worse than the disease.

ragnese 6y ago
If you read the next sentence you would see that I was obviously not imagining such a thing was possible. I was just talking about the technical/theoretical way the logic works.