we’ve reached the chapter of this apocalypse at which point it’s worth noting there are people who, for purposes political, personal, or mental, actually do not want it to end. but it needs to end. we need a plan — now — for it to end.
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Replying to @scottrutherford
quarantine was an emergency measure to buy us some time while we got our hospitals, PPE, and tests in order. but it’s like holding your breath. literally impossible to maintain without spiraling into global depression.
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Replying to @micsolana @scottrutherford
It’s self-isolation btw. Everyone is misusing the word. Anyway, one plus is if deaths start rapidly increasing we will know it’s not safe. I say mid May we will know. If not who knows what we do
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Replying to @sthorpe @scottrutherford
of course deaths will increase. this is a pandemic. but what do you think happens when supply chains break down in the middle of a global depression? there are no good answers here.
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Replying to @micsolana @scottrutherford
Well, making the decision to reopen because of economic reasons, is bad because it will guarantee a long depression because this bug will stay with us.
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Replying to @sthorpe @scottrutherford
we have exactly one data point for comparison in 1918, and it indicates the opposite of what you're saying. we also have literally 100 years of technological / medical innovation to help us manage this in a controlled reopening.
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Replying to @micsolana @scottrutherford
Also, another funny thing was that during the Spanish flu, San Francisco didn’t obey the self-isolation.
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we’re having two separate conversations rn
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