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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
And if your mom gets shot in a robbery they won't let you on the perpetrator's jury.
You don't advocate policy positions from personal loss or hardship. You have to maintain your cool, understand all consequences and work from there.
And 'our healthcare system' is not national. It's local. So long as the spread continues to behave here as it's behaved everywhere, it won't be a national immediate outbreak. It will continue to be a series of localized outbreaks that will need to be dealt with on a localized basis. SF having its hand full right now does NOTHING to impact capacity in Columbia, MO. And when it gets here, it's not going to be hospital beds in SF that determine the outcomes in Columbia.
So effectuating an immediate national lockdown and putting the clamps on thousands of communities that have not been in any way impacted by it right now will immediately start the '**** this' clock and you'll be burning time, good will and buy-in for no reason in those communities. Then if/when it DOES get there, you have a populace of frayed, exhausted, fiscally and emotionally drained people who are simply done. They'll you'll still have your hospital collapse followed by a local populace that no longer has the buy-in or wherewithal to be as responsible as they'd have otherwise been.
This has to continue to be dealt with on a localized basis. These responses have to continue to be tailored. Surgery with a shotgun is the LAST thing we need.
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Strategically target the social distancing/self-isolating measures to the high risk group.
When a cancer patient going through chemotherapy has a compromised immune system, the entire community they live in does not shutdown and social distance.
Instead the individual social distances/self-isolates and those who come in direct contact with them take the proper precautions (i.e. wearing a mask, gloves, washing hands, limiting touching, etc.)
There is no reason why that same approach can't be used in this situation.
The small minority of people who suffer complications from COVID-19 and require hospitalization/medical attention are not some random group... they can be easily identified through common characteristics (i.e. the elderly and people with underlying health conditions).
That group of people should self-isolate and social distance.