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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So this is a week old but here is an explanation of what South Korea has been doing to get their cases under control.

They did close schools but are providing emergency child care for those who need it.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/south-koreas-drastic-measures-coronavirus-offers-glimpse-us/story?id=69383034

Since this virus isn't that dangerous to our youngest adults, I could see us putting something together like that.

Close schools officially so no usual curriculum, testing or IEP requirements. School is closed.

However, students may register at their NEAREST local school (by appropriate age -- elem, middle) within walking distance (usually) for emergency child care.  They are cared for in groups of no more than 10 per classroom.

teachers who volunteer for assignment receive double or triple pay hazard.  Pay for this with reduced gas consumption.

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So everyone is still out mixing except some teachers.  You are really grasping at straws here.[/quote]

Huh?  I'm basing this off of what they are doing in S. Korea.  Implement multiple measures.

Close all schools.   Shut down all recreation in the city. Everyone telework who possibly can. Everyone stay home if they can.  Fines or prison for people who do not follow the rules -- no teens congregating at the mall.

Leave home only for work (essential work -- not party planning or gyms) and to go grocery shopping.  Yes that's going to be people out and about.

People said "But what about the nurses who have children they can't leave?"   Create emergency day cares as S Korea did in the now empty elementary schools.  It could be done.[/quote]

How do you handle the income for all the people who will lose their jobs?  
Let's just take a single entity of your post:  the gym.  You have to close all the gyms.  So right there the front desk staffers lose their jobs.  The instructors.  The custodians.  How do they survive?
And you can extrapolate this to countless lines of work---vast sectors of society have no ability to telework and will lose all income.

So they you have the white collar class still drawing an income from the sanctuary of their homes and then the entire lower class drawing 1) no income at all or 2)still working in the middle of the virus because their jobs are vital for society--someone has to sell the groceries, check in people at the hospitals, work the gas stations, work at the sewage treatment plants, and on and on.

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I don't know the correct term, but there is a "stimulus plan" that is being proposed right now to help the people in cases like this.[/quote]

LMAO- the payroll tax cut?[/quote]

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