Suppose that rumors about a national lockdown with Guard at state borders were true Suppose that this were being done not because the government were blindingly incompetent and/or just into implementing martial law at an opportune moment--I know I doubt it too but bear with me
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What purpose could this possibly serve if you were a moderately insane social planner? Obvious answer someone else mentioned in another context, probably using different language: scaled quarantining
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Execution would be something like this--yes I'm sure there are better ways this is spitballing (Also credit to
@selentelechia who gave the core of this as an offhand remark in the car) 1. Split regions aggressively and limit travel between1 reply 0 retweets 18 likesShow this thread -
2. Test aggressively and perhaps randomly in each region on a regular basis to establish prevalence of the disease 3. When some (good) threshold hit, reduce level of mandatory quarantining 4. Open borders between states attaining low prevalence thresholds
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Idea would be to segment off regions with raging epidemics while minimizing economic impact elsewhere conditional on not bringing back high levels of transmission I suspect this is sort of happening at the country level already, de facto
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Oh weird I have no idea Think Trump is maybe just fine closing borders?
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