Though it is a disturbing & extreme option, we should seriously consider deliberately infecting folks with coronavirus, to spread out the number of critically ill people over time, and to ensure that critical infrastructure remains available to help sick. http://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/02/consider-controlled-infection.html …
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Replying to @robinhanson
The threshold for a gov't to impose brutal measures on individual citizens for the common good should be VERY high. Uncertainty in rate of spread given various control practices now active, and the viability of rapid discovery of vaccines or cures, makes this idea fall way short
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If the US gets Chinese infection rates, the civilian admin will collapse much faster, and the military will have to take over major cities to secure quarantines and food supplies. They will probably act on brutal numerical estimates of outcomes.
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