The point of all our current social distancing is to stay within the capacity of the hospital system, so people who could be saved given hospital resources don't die. But it does nothing for groups who are at very high risk
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By delaying the moment when most people would have gotten sick and recovered, it might even be making things worse for people who absolutely can't risk getting sick, by prolonging the period of risk and isolation. It's a weird tension and hard to talk about!
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In general, there's a tendency in public messaging to promise that "things will be over by summer" which I think is going to lead to a lot of anger down the road.
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You're not going to Disneyland in July. Unless we get enough test kits and it's 'seropositive week', where Goofy draws blood from the whole family before you're allowed in. Life is going to get weird unless we find an effective therapy.
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Anyway, I'm not only the hair club president here, but also a client, trying to keep an at-risk parent safe from the world for God knows how long. My deepest sympathies to everyone else with a loved one to care for who is in a high risk category.
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Regional quarantine and broad testing could drive (local) infections to 0. Then we can all go outside.
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Could they, though? I'm watching the backsliding in Hong Kong and Singapore and wondering about that. I would love to read some informed opinion about this aspect of the pandemic.
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I'm having a job interview soon and i have trepidation over having to tell them "i'm 100% work from home until i'm vaccinated".
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