Optimism about the short-term situation (i.e. that the curve is leveling off) does not necessarily translate into optimism about the long-term situation, because the reason the curve is bending downward is social distancing and we don't rally have a plan for the next phase yet.
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Must have widespread testing availability
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And effective treatments would be helpful...
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Especially as we slide into warm weather season. It was 70°+ yesterday in much of the eastern half of the US. You can't possibly enforce social distancing if millions of people are going to go outside into that
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Correct, sirs.
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The curve is all about delaying causalities rather than preventing them, right? In the scheme of things, does it matter if people die today rather than, say, June when, inevitably, there'll be a push to "open things up" and contaminate people again.
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Big difference. In June, there will be ICU and operating rooms for those that suffer strokes, heart attacks, and cancer. Today those people are way more at risk. I know of people who need cancer operations and just cannot get them now because of the overload.
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I think the point is to buy time to get that apparatus in place. As long as Trump stays distracted with his daily TV appearances, they may yet pull this damned thing off.
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Yeah this is really just buying us time - the question is will they use it? Or, as what is actually happening, hawk cure-alls
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