This is a very bad take by & 's Katherine Yih. In fact, it's practically Trumpian. It distorts facts, current public health recommendations and ends up awfully close to 's bad advice. 1/
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Shame on & for publishing this Malthusian drivel. If you want a progressive take on how to deal with the pandemic, & I wrote this a while ago. 2/ bostonreview.net/politics/gregg
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And : 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/
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There are those with undiagnosed underlying conditions, those of all ages with known complicating factors, who we would have to lock up too. 5/
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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/
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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 has suggested, not a "let 'er rip" strategy of letting the virus run its course. 7/
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Now to have the progressive left run around in circles so they are essentially supporting the Administration's goals for #COVID19 is just demoralizing to the extreme. Because yes, this is just what you published. It's garbage. end/
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read both articles seems to be about social change seems to be more about policy change of Covid 19 I see no strawman arguments
Scaling up testing? The US already tests at amongst the highest per capita rate of large countries. Nations you hold up as success stories (e.g. S. Korea, Japan, Vietnam) have low per capita testing. We should be doing high value testing. Not quantity for the sake of quantity.
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