As test kits are ramping up in production. It is perhaps better that we only quarantine those who are tested positive and their immediate contacts. People who are at risk should also choose to WFH or stay at home. Locking the whole country down creates layoffs, job losses, loss in production and panic. I will only support Trump's decision to "open up the economy again" if the above is done. #covid-19 #coronavirus
Clearly you have failed to understand absolutely nothing about how persistently this virus is able to spread.
Which part is wrong? I'm not arguing but unclear what you take issue with. The virus isn't magical - it spreads in very well-understood ways and certain populations are at drastically higher risk of severe reactions than others. It seems like those two facts could be used to come up with a better plan.
The virus also spreads through object surface contact. For example, let's say I am a contact of a known tested positive patient. Before I was told about this visited the grocery store or a pharmacy or anything on those lines, touched a few objects because I had no idea I have been contracted, now that I was told that I am at risk, I self quarantine and wait but 2 days later someone visits the store or any place that I visited and comes in contact with the surface that I touched, now they are most likely infected.....and the chain goes on. We NEED to break the chain or reduce the spread as much as we possibly can and lock down is the only way, selective quarantine is not the way.
That are people who do not show any symptoms and carry the virus. Those people will not go get tested and the virus just spread crazy with lots of death.
This statement always confused me. The virus spreads when material is transferred from an infected person's lungs to someone else's. That almost always means someone sneezed or coughed up particles - coughing and sneezing are symptoms. How does it get out of the lungs of an asymptomatic person to spread?
Through talking and close contacts. You can just talk to a carrier and get corona.
You have to test them first, which is a presidency winning problem to solve. Trump is stupid, but he has no choice. He can go down as the liar and incompetent president, or he can gamble with your life. He bankrupted many companies he run, what do you think he will choose?
After the lockdown, all visitors or returnees must go to self-quarantine.
It could be done without locking down. Quarantine travelers 14 days automatically.
Because we let in people already, we first need to let the existing viruses die. Hence the lockdown first. Otherwise, it's as good as not doing anything.
What's your opinion of Italy then? Thousands of people have died and the US hasn't even done a full lockdown yet and we're 2 weeks behind.
How do you even impose a full lockdown?! We're not a single state, but union of 50 states/DC/Puerto Rico and some smaller territories. When NYC Is overrun by infected people, a lot of people in remote places in Montana/Wyoming/Dakotas hardly have any neighbors for miles and miles away.
Can we afford to overwhelm the health system in America with an open economic system during this outbreak is another question to be answered.
Hmm this is a good point. 🤔 that is why quarantining the population at risk, the travelers, the positive cases and all of their direct contacts is still necessary.
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Not troll it makes sense
Let the kids back in school, then let young healthy people return to work. Focus on isolating the old and sick.
No one will stay at home to suggest that they are old and sick. My manager don’t even let the company know his blood pressure.
Excellent article. Logical and easy to understand. I see more and more people coming to grips with this new reality. What I fear is the many who are in denial and do not adhere to the common sense steps needed to combat the virus.
It's a state issue at this point in time