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So one thing I’m not getting is what use is being made of the time bought by social distancing and lockdowns? You have basic flatten the curve effects, and accelerated manufacture of PPE, tests,ventilators, setting up of surge/spillover facilities... what else?
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Clinical trials hopefully. What we really need though is a federal task force focused not on the current response now but how to try to open up in 3 months.
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A young doctor in my building who works at Elmhurst told me 10 days ago that he was training everyone on ventilator use. Said essentially the same thing, everyone is ICU. At the time I asked how they were doing. He said ok, but 10 days later was going to be bad. To. The. Day.
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Depends on what you mean by making use of time. Some are making good use, from their perspective:
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A rube sells off their stocks based on Senate intelligence pandemic briefings. The long play is to use the pandemic to change the law to allow your business to engage in massive rent-seeking and tax-avoidance. nytimes.com/2020/03/26/bus
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