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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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I will be shocked if test and trace actually gets anywhere in the US. Too organizationally fragmented for the data not to be mostly garbage. Apple/Google thing will be gameable umpteen ways and fall apart.