Soooo.... just realized I hold a very unpopular opinion.
Reopening economy vs. saving lives is NOT a false choice, but a real one. The first instinct idea is correct.
Reason: building out test-and-trace is NOT free in time/money, nor is it guaranteed 100% to work.
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Not guaranteed to work as in, on the ground, not the theory. Deploying such huge infrastructure in crisis mode is almost guaranteed to run into big, deep execution snafus and then we end up stumbling into reopening anyway under desperation.
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not in my neck of the woods.... and recent surveys show it's the minority opinion in genpop too, at least in US (ie more people are worried about opening too soon than too early)
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I'm making a very trivial point. We'll be forced to make the choice, based on short term economic stresses, so the fact that in the long term they are a false choice doesn't affect the fact that in the short term it's a real choice...
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I think that this is very country-dependent. With a strict lockdown followed by intense Test/Trace/Isolate, China has saved lives and opened the economy, likely much more robustly than #flattenthecurve countries can. That requires infringements on privacy, unacceptable to US.
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I have a thread about how it is not binary in reality
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The liberate x protests are phony astroturfing. What is the political strategy behind funding these protests? How can this pandemic have a win-win scenario for the right-wing? There is a narrative created here that feels off to me. Thread.
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