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One idea I haven’t seen discussed, which I think is interesting although politically intractable: What if we allocated doses geographically, with a goal of (1)
by burlesona 6y ago
One idea I haven’t seen discussed, which I think is interesting although politically intractable:
What if we allocated doses geographically, with a goal of (1) getting some regions fully reopened and back to work immediately, but also (2) establishing a sort of inverse quarantine zone where we’ve stamped out COVID and keep it to zero.
Again I think in the real world this won’t work because we already have shown the western world largely won’t obey quarantines / lockdowns etc.
But if our primary goal was to eliminate the disease - which seems worthwhile if we could pull it off - then a geographic approach might be more effective than a distributed approach.
Specifically, I think you’d have a better chance of getting vaccination rates into the 90% range and subsequently via travel restriction keep these green zones clean so that even those who refuse the vaccination aren’t acting as a reservoir for it.