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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The numbers small. Who cares [/quote]

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

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. [/quote]

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.)

[img]https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/03/22/science/11SCI-VIRUS-CURVE1/11SCI-VIRUS-TRACKER1-superJumbo.jpg[/img]

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.

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If the plan is to quarantine for 2 years that’s not a plan [/quote]

The other plan is let up to 1.8 million Americans die.  Maybe your haircut is more important to you than mass murder, but not to me.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/21/839456638/what-happens-if-u-s-reopens-too-fast-federal-documents-show-coronavirus-projecti[/quote]

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