Why is Daily Infection increasing?

[Anonymous]

I can't believe there are idiots out there that will deliver groceries to my house for a $7 tip. Never in America has the working class have so much power as they do now, and yet they risk their lives for peanuts. They could bring this economy to its knees by striking, and in a heartbeat they'd get everything they ever wanted. Meanwhile Bezos net worth has gone up by 41 BILLION dollars!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe there are idiots out there that will deliver groceries to my house for a $7 tip. Never in America has the working class have so much power as they do now, and yet they risk their lives for peanuts. They could bring this economy to its knees by striking, and in a heartbeat they'd get everything they ever wanted. Meanwhile Bezos net worth has gone up by 41 BILLION dollars!

Your sneering contempt and disdain for the very people who allow you to remain safely holed-up in your McMansion is disgusting.

Someone really ought to tear you down and put up a human being in your place.

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Anonymous wrote:The numbers small. Who cares

This. The whole point was to not overwhelm hospitals. Hospitals are practically empty. It’s time to move on and address the economic suffering.

Ah yes but now it’s time to move the goalposts from “not overwhelming hospitals” to “making sure no one gets sick.” Hence the need for 2+ more months of all this. Apparently.

Apparently you have zero understanding of how "flattening the curve" works. You can't just reduce the infection rate, say "good job!" and reopen. All that will do is cause everyone to get sick and completely negate everything. You need to get the curve flat enough to stay under hospital capacity then keep it there for an extended period until there is herd immunity or a vaccine is developed. The whole point is lengthening the time period to reduce the number of people needing care at once.

Perhaps this simple graph can help you understand. Notice the blue (social distancing) is longer than the red? (Letting the virus run wild.)



Think of it like watering a plant. In this analogy, the water is people with Coronavirus who need intensive care to survive. The pot is the hospital. If you just dump all the water in at once, the pot will overflow. All that overflowed water equals people who can't get a hospital bed and die. However, if you pour it slowly and give the water time to absorb into the soil, nothing spills. Yes, it takes longer to water the plant, but you don't spill any water.

Oh, and you're really not going to like this: right now, confirmed cases are about 0.2% of the population, and a vaccine is probably a year or more away from mass production. We are going to need a lot more than 2 months before we have herd immunity or a vaccine.

If the plan is to quarantine for 2 years that’s not a plan

It is a plan. You just don’t like it. (And it actually isn’t the plan, but whatever.)

OK, so what's the plan?

[Anonymous]

Here's your plan:
https://www.boston.com/news/coronavirus/2020/04/27/havard-roadmap-pandemic-resilience-coronavirus

Harvard researchers call for dramatic increase in testing, contact tracing, quarantine.

They say it would require 5 million tests a day in June, and 20 million a day by August. Since the start of the pandemic the US has conducted 5.4 million tests total. DC is currently doing about 300 tests a day and would have to get to 40,000 a day. So it would require a more than 100-fold increase.

But it's a plan.