Originally Posted by
av8or
we cant/won’t stop the outbreak without a vaccine. Period. We’re doing what we’re doing now, just to buy us enough time to get the infrastructure (beds, ventilators etc) in place so that we can save more lives by not having to decide who gets a ventilator and who doesn’t. Over time we might see age/health related quarantine... who knows if that’ll work but at some whether the government says its ok or not, folks are gonna go back to work.
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This!!!
The hysteria is about not overwhelming the Healthcare System, not about the fatality of the disease (exception to elderly and those with an underlying condition of course). The lethality of COVID19 to the general population (compared to....yes...the FLU 😏
) is not even close...
We were slow off the mark but, OUR WAVE of response is starting to build, and will eventually rise to provide the required testing, surveillance, selective quarantining or whatever is appropriate, to match and then blunt the wave of infection rates that is here/coming.
We are not a communist/authoritarian society, so we will not employ the draconian steps that China took to lock down theirs. South Korea's model will be more appropriate, where we test and surveil the hell out of this virus to detect and quickly quarantine those infected, so that the country and rest of us can get on with our lives within a reasonable amount of time....