Gregg GonsalvesVerified account

And @MartinKulldorff: stop it with the straw man arguments. No one is suggesting a lockdown-to-end-all-lockdowns. Most of us are talking about scaling up testing, tracing, isolation so we can have targeted approaches. 3/

Most elderly Americans are NOT in skilled nursing facilities. They are in the community. We cannot wall them off from the rest of society nor expect them to do this for "our" sake. In addition, the vulnerable of all ages are hard to discern. 4/

There are those with undiagnosed underlying conditions, those of all ages with known complicating factors, who we would have to lock up too. 5/

The point is we can do better than we have and the example isn't Sweden it's a number of countries in Europe and Asia who have handled this better than we have or we can look to Canada, Australia, New Zealand. 6/

We need a massive infusion of social and economic support to ordinary Americans, a massive scale-up of public health, targeted closures, perhaps in an on-off adaptive mode as @RYaesoubi has suggested, not a "let 'er rip" strategy of letting the virus run its course. 7/