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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, yes, yes

The trick is to REALLY do it, [b]combined with rapid testing and tracing. [/b]Then when you have eruptions, they can be quickly contact traced and quarantined. That is the only way to beat this thing, short of a vaccine.[/quote]

This.  And this is why the first round of shelter-at-home orders didn't work.  The government should have used the time to build an effective testing and tracing system -- invoking the DPA to procure testing supplies and PPE, working out the logistics for testing sites and labs to run the tests, staffing up testers and contract tracers, setting up quarantine hotels so people weren't quarantining at home, etc.  But it didn't -- it threw the whole thing to the states (except for when it seized PPE and other medical equipment) and the result was the mess we're in now.

If we had done that, we could have brought the numbers down far enough that we could do what other countries are doing -- gradually opening up, and using testing and tracing to prevent new outbreaks, with targeted local/regional shutdowns as needed.  It might never have spread outside of the big cities where it first entered the US.  Instead, it's running nearly unchecked everywhere, with some places having mask mandates and others opening the damn bars.  It's ridiculous.  [/quote]

Agree with this, and part of the problem might be naming an unqualified novice, Jared Kushner, as in charge of the coronavirus task force. What could go wrong?[/quote]

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