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Originally Posted by suzzer99
What if you moved all the at-risk people and their caregivers into “gated communities” for 18 months then just let this thing run it’s course? It would certainly keep the economy going.
Like if you want to keep working at the old folks home, you have to move in to the old folks home. Nobody else gets in w/o a month long onsite quarantine off in some quarantine trailer somewhere. Cargo is defumigated or let sit for the required amount of time or w/e.
We make new gated communities for the olds not in homes, and younger people with comorbidties. Same rules. If you can work from home you can keep working. If not we’ll pay you a stipend. You can video chat with your friends and relatives.
It could be completely voluntary. If you want to live - go to the home for 18 months. You don’t have to get everyone. Just enough to keep the hospitals from overloading. I think once people start dying en masse and everyone knows someone they see clinging to life on a ventilator - you might get enough volunteers.
We’re going to have to start thinking outside the box on this one. As the economy tanks there’s going to be more and more pressure to let the 95% of the workforce who aren't at risk go out and save it. Also once people start dying en masse, you’ll have a lot more motivation from the at-risk groups to accept some form of true isolation.
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There are lots of issues with the idea, but I still think there's at least some merit in the idea of letting otherwise healthy people voluntarily get it, quarantine themselves for a few weeks, and then move on with life. As someone who is under 40 and healthy, I think I'd take a 1 in 1000 chance of death in exchange for possibly being able to move around freely in a few weeks and not worry about infecting anyone.