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As opposed to locking everyone up?

• usrusr 6y ago
  In an unconstrained high incidence situation you need much, much harder isolation to reach a level of individual safety comparable to that of a lockdown that barely achieves an R value of roughly one. More like a space station than like a hotel. And that level of lockdown you'd need at some point anyways, because even adults well within working age require intensive care often enough when infected to overload any health system. And yes, despite all this, if vaccines were decades out (if you expect to be unable to achieve China-grade suppression) instead of months a path like the one you advocate might be the least bad. But "vaccines decades out" a counterfactual.