I think I’m failing to understand something basic. What exactly is the endgame with this social distancing strategy? Doesn’t flattening the curve just mean moving the spike to later when you try to ease the mitigation measures?
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I think people are letting trump derangement syndrome blind them to criticality of getting economy running again. Every modern industrial war since the US civil war has been won by a better economic machine overwhelming a worse one. The fighting bought the economy time to win.
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Trump wants the right thing for the wrong reasons. He measures his “winning” in stock market and employment figures terms. But the health war is not winnable with a crashed economy. The economy needs to be reoriented towards the war effort in much bigger ways.
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Bigger ways than distillers making hand sanitizers and GM making ventilators. 10m people have filed for unemployment in 2 weeks. Their jobs might not be back for months or years or ever. They needs jobs in the war economy. I hate the war metaphor but it’s the only one we have.
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Lemme me put it more simply: the people most willing to crash the economy probably have secure jobs or wealth to tide this out. They have no idea what the precariat is up against after $1200 band-aid and 6 mo support (best case) run out. Probably ~60-80m workers are vulnerable.
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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When our governor (MN) issued his stay-at-home order, he explicitly stated that the purpose was to buy the health care system a few weeks to prepare and maybe get some help from summer weather and UV light. Which got him buy-in from most business folks and Republicans.
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Other reasons to buy a little time: 1. Discover and produce antiviral and other drug therapies 2. Develop serology testing and use it on large sample populations in hotspots so we actually know how many people are getting infected.
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