Anonymous wrote:Three straight days of +2000 deaths. We are at 1.09 million cases and 63,856 deaths today.

USA 1,095,019 +30,825 63,856 +2,201

It appears Trump admin has given up on containment or mitigation. "Herd immunity" is his only strategy now.

Anonymous wrote:Andy Slavitt, former director of Medicare and Medicaid in the Obama administration, and Scott Gottlieb, a former Food and Drug Administration chief for President Trump, say that Congress needs to devote funding to help states track down people who have been exposed to the coronavirus, and to offer resources to infected and exposed individuals who wish to self-isolate.
-https://www.npr.org/2020/04/27/845165404/ex-officials-call-for-46-billion-for-tracing-isolating-in-next-coronavirus-packa


Their proposal, which has support from former govies on both sides, includes a provision for using hotels to give people space to self-isolate:

The Trump administration is actively trying to reopen the economy. To do so safely, the authors say Congress needs to spend $46.5 billion on three public health needs:

$12 billion to help expand the contact tracing workforce. The officials estimate the workforce needs to increase by 180,000 until a vaccine is on the market.

$4.5 billion to use vacant hotels so that infected and exposed people without a place to self-isolate have somewhere they can go so they don't spread the virus.

$30 billion to offer 18 months of income support — a per-person stipend of $50 a day, like jury duty — for those voluntarily self-isolating.

Anonymous wrote:Why isn't the US part of this????

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Anonymous wrote:Let's be honest, the US has been more lax than China and Italy. Increasing testing is a good start. To really get a handle on this we need to quarantine people who test positive in a separate location like a hotel so they don't spread it to the rest of the population. We should quarantine essential workers as well.

Unfortunately, Americans would never go for that.

You’ll have to provide some more specific details about your hotel plan.

DP, but this is what China did. As soon as someone tested positive (or maybe when they were just sick?), they were sent to a temporary quarantine with health care services. In addition to reducing spread, it would keep sick people near health care for those instances where people suddenly took a bad turn.

I don’t think Americans would go for this BUT they probably would go for it if it was voluntary. I know if I was sick I’d want to isolate from my family and have professionals monitoring me. China built makeshift hospitals but using hotels seems reasonable too.

Fancy internment camps! Dems don't change

Oh you don’t have to go though. You can stay home, infect your loved ones, continue putting your community at risk for your own selfish reason, maybe drink some bleach because your cult leader recommended it....knock yourself out!

Anonymous wrote:Bright hired Ford's lawyers. If he had a real case, he would not have gone for the activists.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's be honest, the US has been more lax than China and Italy. Increasing testing is a good start. To really get a handle on this we need to quarantine people who test positive in a separate location like a hotel so they don't spread it to the rest of the population. We should quarantine essential workers as well.

Unfortunately, Americans would never go for that.

You’ll have to provide some more specific details about your hotel plan.

DP, but this is what China did. As soon as someone tested positive (or maybe when they were just sick?), they were sent to a temporary quarantine with health care services. In addition to reducing spread, it would keep sick people near health care for those instances where people suddenly took a bad turn.

I don’t think Americans would go for this BUT they probably would go for it if it was voluntary. I know if I was sick I’d want to isolate from my family and have professionals monitoring me. China built makeshift hospitals but using hotels seems reasonable too.

Fancy internment camps! Dems don't change

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Anonymous wrote:Let's be honest, the US has been more lax than China and Italy. Increasing testing is a good start. To really get a handle on this we need to quarantine people who test positive in a separate location like a hotel so they don't spread it to the rest of the population. We should quarantine essential workers as well.

Unfortunately, Americans would never go for that.

You’ll have to provide some more specific details about your hotel plan.

DP, but this is what China did. As soon as someone tested positive (or maybe when they were just sick?), they were sent to a temporary quarantine with health care services. In addition to reducing spread, it would keep sick people near health care for those instances where people suddenly took a bad turn.

I don’t think Americans would go for this BUT they probably would go for it if it was voluntary. I know if I was sick I’d want to isolate from my family and have professionals monitoring me. China built makeshift hospitals but using hotels seems reasonable too.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's be honest, the US has been more lax than China and Italy. Increasing testing is a good start. To really get a handle on this we need to quarantine people who test positive in a separate location like a hotel so they don't spread it to the rest of the population. We should quarantine essential workers as well.

Unfortunately, Americans would never go for that.

You’ll have to provide some more specific details about your hotel plan.