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+1 - Browsh is one of the most amazing pieces of software I've come across in the past few years. I've found that using Browsh together with mosh and tmux, you can get a surprising…

> The full lockdown you are advocating for could cause significantly more devastation than it prevents. The financial hit will be very real, but there can and will be mitigations d…

I think as the number of cases explode with more testing availability, governments at all levels will be pressured into taking more action if only to show the population something …

I don't think anyone is suggesting that the situation in Italy is 100% accurately "going to replicate in most places". It's only an example to warn us of the kind of human tragedy …

If you're young and healthy, I can totally see how a lock down might feel worse than the risk of getting the coronavirus. But it's not just about you. It's about the elderly, the s…

No, triage based on likelihood of survival has not been happening widely yet in France and the Netherlands (thankfully).

> this panic feels worse Well, for most people losing their family would feel way worse. There are many ways to mitigate the economic impact down the line. Governments at all level…

> Young People at the lowest risk from this virus are going to be much worse off than just catching a fucking bad cold. It's not a "fucking bad cold" for young people. - Over 50% o…

Governments at all levels, companies and non-profits can (and I don't doubt will) help mitigate the financial hit in the months and years ahead. The California state government has…

Case A: No drastic action, your daughter gets her job in Sydney, you catch the virus in a few weeks and die. Case B: Drastic lock down, your daughter lives on your dime for a few m…

First of all, let's be clear that flattening the curve WILL save lives, even if the same number of people ultimately get exposed to the virus. Not only will we avoid overrunning ho…

- If we can reduce / avoid overloading hospitals, people who get it after the lockdown will get better treatment and will be less likely to die than if they got it now. - Over time…

> Not sure how this is relevant to my post. Many older people cannot just stop getting medical care, and by doing so will be exposed to COVID-19. Especially because hospitals and c…

Yep, 100% agree. No reason to go rob-a-hand-sanitizer-factory crazy. But as you said, everyone one of us should be worried enough to go prep and do our part to slow the spread (WFH…

> I don't say these things to whip people up in a panic, I say them because we are about to get hit hard here in the US. The average person in the US rightly did not have much reas…

> My grandparents are long long dead er...what are you trying to say? So other people's grandparents can go f* themselves? > I do find it amusing you believe only Trump supporters …

Older people cannot just wall themselves off from the rest of society. What if they live with or are cared for by other family members? How will they get health care for existing c…

It's not just about your health or your life. This is what R0 means - even if you end up fine after getting the disease, you're going to transmit it to other people who may end up …

> This is an inacurrate estimation. Sure, the actual number will likely be different for each country / state / city, but doesn't really matter for the sake of the argument. I was …

And there aren't severe human consequences from millions of people dying in the next few months? Easy to say when you don't seriously have to face the possibility of your parents a…

> Why on Earth is this a good model? Because it worked. Millions of lives have been saved - 1% of 1.3B is 13M people. That's 1/5 of Italy. Are there better models? Maybe. But there…

This. The economy is going to be hit either way, it's just a choice between A) a lock down but most people staying alive and healthy or B) lots of people dying or sick and an overr…

> saying retrospectively "you should've known better" is just childish European governments were not the first to have to deal with the epidemic (China), nor among the first few (T…

This is classic normalcy bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias People will grasp at any excuse to convince themselves "it'll be fine, it won't happen to me". The fact i…