If you want to learn more about the Japanese approach, the amazing @miekocakes is translating their public health experts on the account @fightingenie55. I spent the last three months in Japan and assure you that kind of lockdown is completely livable while we wait for a vaccine
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I have no problem with trying it. Why don’t you get in touch with the relevant authorities in places like Alabama and Arkansas and South Carolina.
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We happen to have one country where those countermeasures have been tested and contained the disease twice. But then this success is turned into an argument for why the approach couldn't possibly work elsewhere. It's a bizarre intellectual pretzel people tie themselves into.
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Nobody is arguing that we couldn’t control the disease if we got cases down to reasonable levels AND put in place sensible test/trace/isolate strategies in places where cases are low. The political problem is that half the country doesn’t want to do any of that.
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I agree with you. I think we can converge on this, but it is going to need public trust in contact tracing and cluster analysis, and the UK is undermining that by shoddy outsourcing, and the US just announced contact tracing is for catching antifa terrorists.
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Japan had a solid existing network of local public health workers able to ramp up contact tracing with trust.
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