Denmarks shuts down all schools, daycare facilities, universities, highschools

Post by gotstad » Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 9:10 PM UTC

chasd00 wrote: post #49

unexpected wrote: post #37

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I disagree here. Denmark is acting proactively and shutting down schools for 2 weeks. This is a "rip the band aid off early" type of move. By shutting down everything for 2 weeks, they effectively self-quarantine during the entire incubation period and will dramatically slow the rate of the virus. China, on the other hand, did not do this, and they were forced to shut down schools for 6 months. These moves are HARD a…

for the two weeks as of day one of the changes. What if the virus shows up on day 15, the day after things return to normal? Will they stay shutdown for another two weeks?

Post by shostack » Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 9:11 PM UTC

simplyinfinity wrote: post #24

JPKab wrote: post #12

Something that I heard from an epidemiologist the other day is how shutting down schools and daycares can be incredibly counterproductive, because such a high percentage of health care workers have children which suddenly are at home and need to be supervised, pulling these workers out of their duties. I suppose its ok early on, but seems problematic if enough people eventually get infected. Understood that schools a…

A virologist mentioned that kids up until 19 basically don't get sick from this virus, something like 0.2%, and even if they do its not as hard on them as on adult in their 40ies or older. So indeed very counter productive

Post by drstewart » Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 9:12 PM UTC

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #81

aazaa wrote: post #26

All of these shutdowns, especially the large ones recently announced, raise the question: how long? How long do we continue and what criteria will be used to begin opening things back up? How long before other parts of the economy begin to fail?

Until there's a vaccine this is all "flattening the curve" trying to limit the overall number of severely sick individuals to a level that they can get hospital care.

Post by undreren » Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 9:14 PM UTC

arcticbull wrote: post #75

undreren wrote: post #66

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These are iniatives to spare the old and the weak. How little regard do you have for these people? Their mortality rate is way higher than 0.5%

Read my response to a sister comment.

Post by astura » Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 9:15 PM UTC

majos wrote: post #23

mixmax wrote: post #7

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yes, the specifics aren't out yet but a package is being put together right now by the government. We don't know yet how much, but the numbers are in the billions. The government is aware that this is a dificult situation financially for a lot of companies and are working to resolve it. A lot of it will be through delayed payment of taxes and VAT to keep cashflow.

This seems enormously complicated. How can the government reliably assess lost revenue? What about businesses whose expenditures were always unrealistic and a temporary closure pushed them over the edge, should they be covered too? Note that I’m not criticizing the solution, just remarking on how hard the problem looks.