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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the people who are repeating ad nauseum “this social distancing is just supposed to spread out the illness, not diminish it” are technically right.

But we have all done this distancing in order to buy us time and give governments a chance to implement a testing and contact tracing program, and the federal government has utterly failed us.

So yes, under a competent national government, we would re-open and some would get sick, but we would be able to track and manage the outbreaks. But we’re on our own here. And half of the US have pre-existing conditions that make us more susceptible to more serious complications if we were to get covid.

Forgive us for not being so blazé. [/quote]

No, the distancing is done in order to not overwhelm the healthcare system. So we don’t have to decide who gets a ventilator and who doesn’t. Literally every article on “flattening the curve” is about exactly this. If you actually read about how Korea managed their contact tracing, that will never ever happen here. [/quote]

But my point, which you seemed to have missed, is that we're actually only operating in a binary function -- the only option to Americans is to huddle and self-quarantine, or you're taking a crap shoot if you're out in the community at all. We're not really doing the work that is required in "flattening the curve" -- there is no testing, no contact tracing, and seemingly no real plan for how we're going to get to the volume necessary. It's binary in that it's all or nothing.

I know the purpose of flattening the curve and probably have read significantly more literature than you on this. At this point in the game, you can't do it without testing AND tracing. Korea was able to mitigate the severity of SARS-CoV-2 by early interventions, closures and early testing. [/quote]

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