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Originally Posted by AustinChief
The point is not the "miracle cure". The point is the scenario. What is your answer to the specific scenario laid out?
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I’m with you that if there is a way to treat this it should be less important to keep everyone at home but the problem is there is no way they’re going to be able to know this works for everyone in that time. The goal is to not over-tax the health care system since that will lead to a lot of deaths. If the scenario you put out leads to a verifiable way to treat enough people to keep people from over-using the available ventilators/etc then the purpose of sheltering becomes moot.
I would just want to make sure that you can know it works in all the situations and with all the different kinds of cases we’ll be facing before we tell everyone it’s okay to start spreading it again.
Also, if they say 2 more weeks would really inoculate us from future problems I think most would be okay with that. A lot of the pressure on the economy is because we don’t know how long this will last/cost so a drug therapy would be immensely helpful on that front.