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Originally Posted by tbone2u
Px.....you have 4 little ones with their parents in a house....
You don't burn down the house to save them.
That's exactly what we are doing to the US now.
Hidalgo might have made a decent clerk somewhere but she hasn't the brains to be the county judge.
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i totally see where you're coming from tbone. i hate to keep tying shit back to the orange man, but if we rewound the tape and had used a Manhattan project or a moonshot type of approach with respect to testing and tracking of covid-19, as South Korea and Germany have done, instead of "we'll see what happens," your idea would have worked. the problem comes from a very unusual aspect of this virus, per the experts, which is that the virus can be transmitted by people who don't know they have it. (why that is we don't know yet.) unless we can establish through almost universal testing who has and who doesnt have it, there is no safe way, imo, to go back to business as usual.
it seems some states are about to try going back to "business as usual"-ish, so they will be the guinea pigs to see if a return to normalcy is possible. if cases start going exponential, then no, but if the curve remains flat, then yes. i think georgia was the first state to reopen following trump's advice before he reversed himself.
as public health measures, gloves, a mask, good hygiene, use of disinfectants on
only inanimate objects, following the 6 foot rule, and frequent handwashing are probably the best we can do for now.
do i know all the answers? no way. even experts are trying to get a handle on the pandemic. there are multiple issues which i wont address now (because it would run 10 pages) that need to be worked out, such as whether the presence of antibodies means that Igs (immunoglobulins, fancy name for antibodies) confer immunity against reinfection or not. if we had started a Manhattan project-style of addressing all the relevant issues when the outbreak was limited to Wuhan, we might have a much better situation than what we have today.
without knowing who carries covid-19 and who doesn't, imo, there simply isn't any return to normalcy that's possible without jeopardizing lives.
in the meantime, georgia and a few other states can be the guinea pigs for the rest of us. as trump likes to say, "we"ll see what happens."
my business is getting as beat up as the next guy's, so am i happy about the quarantine? no way. it sucks. but i don't think there are any better alternatives just yet.
