Amidst all the worthy talk of 'flattening the curve', I don't think we've talked about or internalized the idea that at-risk people, including essentially everyone over a certain age, are going to have to stay in long-term isolation until there is a treatment, vaccine, or cure
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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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They had good reason to be, though! It nearly was!
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