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Originally Posted by petegz28
We are going too. The question is how any and how fast? The problem I have is it just feels like people keep changing the end game target. We wanted increased testing and we knew that would raise the number of cases but also shrink the CFR. We extrapolate multiple times a week how many people "really" have this which increases the number of cases and shrinks the CFR. We are seeing a very significant difference between asymptomatic and symptomatic people and we get scared that the asymptomatic MAY get symptomatic as well as spread the disease. We see clustered areas inflate the case counts such as nursing homes, meat plants and prisons and project that to be the same as everywhere else.
In the end it has gone from flattening the curve to prevent our hospitals from being overrun to slowing the spread to now I guess we can't go outside until it is all gone?
To me it just seems like we are spinning our wheels and suffering paralysis by analysis.
Too many people are looking at things strictly from a medical perspective.
Too many people are looking at things strictly from an economic perspective.
Neither is going to get exactly what they want and both are going to cause the other some degree of harm.
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To me, the goal was always to get the spread under control, which means a steady decline in cases. Even the official guidance from the feds says that it should be seen over 14 days.
We just aren't seeing it yet, which is where I start to get concerned again.