The evidence is in fact pretty strong that the percentage of the elderly in this country living in institutional group homes is high enough that no "lock down the elderly" policy can possibly work
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Replying to @arthur_affect @j_hibernicus and
Unless you can somehow enforce a lockdown on all the younger people who work there too (including their families), any "herd immunity" strategy is just sentencing all the nursing homes to death
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Exactly. Enforce a lockdown of those workers if needed (with appropriate relief). Why it needs to extend beyond that makes no sense. "Somehow enforce". We can't be sure we can entice and enforce a lockdown of this smaller pop. But we're sure we can with the entire pop.? Come on
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There are two terms you multiply together to see how effective a lockdown is, one of them being how strict the measures are and the other being how many people are doing it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Reroot_Flyover and
Unless the effectiveness of your measures is actually 100% or nearly so, the number of people doing it matters a whole lot
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No NPI is close to "100% or nearly so". None. So....
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So any measures we do pass need to be as close to universial as possible, and any messaging that any group of people is immune or "doesn't need to worry" is deeply irresponsible
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Who said any of this? No one is immune save those already infected. But not everyone is at grave risk. This is a fact. We *know* who the vulnerable population is. Focus.
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Oh fuck you man You know who's vulnerable? Me I'm not in the "most vulnerable" group, but I'm vulnerable, largely because, to be blunt, I'm fat I do not expect the government to give me money anytime soon to enable me to "fully lock down" while everyone else parties
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If we reopen America before a vaccine, I fully expect that I WILL get the virus randomly from going to the grocery store And I will die, at the age of 37, or failing that I will have major "long COVID" health problems that shorten my lifespan by 20 years
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Reroot_Flyover and
So frankly I don't give a shit about your precious economy Unless you're going to promise me a room in a state-funded quarantine hotel I am going to continue to fight for universal lockdowns out of simple self-preservation
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Reroot_Flyover and
Quarantine hotel! I hear an Eagles song coming!
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