yeah, the problem is, you can do this indefinitely. You can wipe COVID off the planet and still argue for more restrictions because "we don't know" if it will come back at any time. The adjustments we're making are not slight.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1358530598969704456 …
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I think we could learn more from Cambodia and Sierra Leone.
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Well South Korea because they got badly hit *and* managed to contain anyway. But yes.
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In fact, treating this like the flu—which is the Western pandemic playbook—was a key early mistake. Flu isn’t overdispersed and basically you don’t expect to stop it once it’s out until you get a vaccine—and those have efficacy ceilings.
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yeah but that makes the case that the pandemic playbook Trump was accused of recklessly throwing out was useless anyway. We didn't have a plan to deal with this type of virus.
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I mean China's response included welding apartment doors shut. There's no way we can do what China did in the United States.
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Sure. South Korea is better example. Japan too. Neither eradicated but had a life while waiting for vaccine. Some key right moves early—and not same ones! There’s a toolkit.
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