Is our fight against coronavirus worse than the disease?
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#2This discussion on HN has some great first hand accounts about the situation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22627636
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#3Even the opening photo caption in that opinion piece is wrong.
There are plenty of 20 and 30-somethings that end up in the hospital from not being able to breathe.
Our fight is worse because there is no testing in the USA when every other country has mass testing. If we knew who had it, we could isolate just those people and the country wouldn't be headed towards recession (hopefully not depression).
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#4This article is almost completely rhetoric, bereft of quantitative analysis and at odds with what the broader medical community has been saying. The New York Times really does let any credentialed dingus post shit on their website.
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#5No. It might have been easier if countries reacted in January when it was obviously going to infect everyone. Now it's too late for anything but a lockdown.
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#6Subhead is better than headline: "There may be more targeted ways to beat the pandemic."
Thought-provoking piece.
And if we had much more available testing, what it proposes could be a smart way to go.
Until we have much more available testing, it's a pipe dream.
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#7No, because the goal is to buy time.
Many things that can create positive outcomes are in motion: vaccines, drugs to lessen symptoms, testing spin up, etc.
However, all of these things need time to come to fruition.
For example, once we actually have enough tests, targeted quarantines now work. At that point, we can start backing off the full lockdowns.
However, we're currently in an unchecked exponential growth phase. The only thing you can do right NOW, is shut down.
Given time, more options may open up. But what we need most right now is time.
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#8I'm finding that the fight against the fight against covid is the most unnerving.
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#9No. It might have been easier if countries reacted in January when it was obviously going to infect everyone. Now it's too late for anything but a lockdown.
Yup. The surgical strike option is long past viability in the US and many other countries. There's already way too many cases, and we don't remotely have enough resources in the form of tests and case workers to track down active infections and everyone that person has been in contact with.
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#10Eh.... no... that's what Italy tried to do, (tried to stamp out clusters, while keeping everything the same and itdidn't work)
Right now they are having massive casualties per day, to almost (if not more) than ww2, and there is no sign of slowing down yet.
"Italy reports 5,986 new cases of coronavirus and 627 new deaths, raising total to 47,021 cases and 4,032 dead"