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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reposting the explanation below, because it bears repeating.

This is a question of life and death because we are looking at hospital incapacitation unless we do something now. 
Temporary closures and telework are a very efficient tool, [u]and the only one we have right now[/u], to manage the load of patients needing care at any given time. 
In a critical healthcare system overload situation such as the one we are developing right now, we cannot stall to worry about how we're going to give out free meals to kids or who gets fired from which job because of childcare issues. There will be non-lethal collateral damage, but we're trying to reduce preventable deaths right now. Kids and adults will survive closures. Some of them might not survive the ensuing medical breakdown if we do not close right now.

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It's a question of hospital capacity.

The total number of COVID-19 cases requiring hospitalization + the expected number of patients needing hospitalization from other causes should be smaller than or equal to the total number of beds, in any given area, at any given time.

We cannot stop the epidemic. We can slow its spread by closures, quarantines and systematic social distancing so that all patients can have the best level of care. Otherwise patients will die from lack of medical supervision (personnel will be stretched thin, exhausted and overwhelmed), and lack of medical equipment and resources. Not just COVID-19 patients, but ALL patients in hospitals. Patients sick from cancer, flu, pneumonia, the labor and delivery ward, the ones with broken bones from car accidents, etc... Viruses spread like wildfire in hospital settings.

Yes, we are buying time. Time that will save lives. It could be your own.

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Among other things, you seem very ignorant to the fact that closing schools/daycares will affect the ability of medical personnel to do their jobs.[/quote]

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