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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone should read:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/opinion/sanders-biden-socialism.html

I think it’s a perspective that really needs to be heard. [/quote]

Sorry pasted wrong link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/opinion/coronavirus-economy.html[/quote]

Agree!  “Use a two-week isolation strategy,’’ Katz answered. Tell everyone to basically stay home for two weeks, rather than indefinitely. (This includes all the reckless college students packing the beaches of Florida.) If you are infected with the coronavirus it will usually present within a two-week incubation period.

“Those who have symptomatic infection should then self-isolate — with or without testing, which is exactly what we do with the flu,’’ Katz said. “Those who don’t, if in the low-risk population, should be allowed to return to work or school, after the two weeks end.”

Effectively, we’d ‘reboot’ our society in two or perhaps more weeks from now. "[/quote]

Love this idea! Finally somebody sensible [/quote]

Except you need to be able to test!  I’ve had a recurrent runny nose for the last five months. Is it a virus?  Dry air? Something else?  In order for people to isolate longer than 14 days, you need a test, otherwise people will write it off as another cold, etc. [/quote]

Yeah, this strategy only works if you have an easily accessible test so you can know at the end of 2 weeks if you have the virus or not.

Since people can have the virus without symptoms, and spread it to others... a household could start with a child with the virus but no symptoms, and at the end of 14 days mom and dad could be infected but showing no symptoms yet.   2 week reboot is over -- but mom and dad now go out and spread their germs for a few days before coming down with a cough.   Since there's no test .. how do you prevent that from happening over and over again?

This strategy also ignores the fact that many young people with the virus need hospitalization.  It's not just the elderly who are clogging up the hospitals.[/quote]

It also ignores that the "vulnerable" health-wise are simultaneously made the most vulnerable economic-wise, if they aren't participating in the economy as the majority is. It feeds into the individualistic mentality of US society, screw the most vulnerable, and let's make them even more vulnerable, so the rest of us can get back to pretending this isn't happening.[/quote]

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