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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Notre Dame is NYC. We’re literally watching it burn with our jaws on the floor while their leader keeps explaining how this is to be expected and it’s under control. [/quote]

Has anyone actually been admitted to the hospital at this time?  NYC was a completely different story, with people dying and the hospitals absolutely overrun.   ND has had a bunch of positive tests, but I haven’t heard of anyone getting seriously sick or needing to be hospitalized.   [/quote]
Wondering the same thing, myself. I’m old enough to remember when we were told that shutdowns/closures were happening just so we could prevent the hospitals from being overwhelmed. Anyone else remember that? If the hospitals aren’t overwhelmed, not sure what the hysteria is all about.[/quote]

We learned more.

"Flatten the curve" was the initial goal, and it came from the response for pandemic influenza.

However, with COVID, we now know more, and the goal is to get the rate of spread in a community to a point at which outbreaks can be contained easily, with contact tracing.   The number experts have come up with is 1 new case, per 100,000 people, per day.

Counties and states and countries that can get down to this low level are in the "green" zone and they have to stay alert, but they can mostly go about their lives without too much disruption.  They can even walk around without masks and have friends over for dinner.  They need to continue to do surveillance testing and when they see an outbreak need to pounce on it hard.

The higher up on the scale you go (yellow zone or orange zone) the harder you have to work and more measures you need to take, to not end up in the red danger zone.    So experts have realized it is actually easier to get to green, and just stay there, than it is to get to low orange, and have to continually fight to stay out of the explosive red zone (when hospitals do get overwhelmed).  Yes, you need to take tough measures at first to get to green, but if you do it right and other states around you also do it right, the benefits will be huge both economic and socially.

Does that make sense?

So a college campus with a large outbreak is really going to mess with a community's ability to stay at least in the yellow.  And a campus can't have ANY in person activities if they are in the orange or red.  Spread is just too fast in a college setting.[/quote]

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