more scare mongering. if you allow the healthy low risk groups out... you may not even have an R0 of 1. Sweden has not had some sort or runaway situation. The states in the US are not seeing it either. It did not happen in CA before the lockdown... not even close. Trying to explain that 96 percent of hospitalizations in NY were people with Co morbidities to your types of people is useless because you don't accept the data and its implications... for letting the low risk groups out of shutdown.
Total horseshit. It is completely being driven by a political narrative at this point and absolutely nothing you can say will convince us otherwise. It is obvious to anyone paying attention and not being manipulated by the so-called "data". The rest of your post was summarily ignored after such a falacy.
1. The hospitals were neve close to being overloaded. In fact many hospitals were downsized due to lack of patients. 2. We have no time to perfect testing and spying on each other. 3. We have no idea how many people have been infected so achieving some arbitrary rate of infection is impossible. 4. The risk to the economy is now, not later. Trying to achieve some perfectly safe scenario will leave us in an economic ash pile. Time to move forward is now.
Are you trying to proclaim that most states in the U.S. are not following the strategy regarding COVID-19 that I outlined? It is the strategy recommended by most public health experts, scientists, medical personal, and many economists. I outlined very clearly the purposes of the strategy --- as I have done many times previously. There are many people claiming there is not COVID-19 lock-down strategy or purpose --- so I have provided it once again. The political narrative are only being driven by people who want to make this about a political agenda rather than public health. This includes both sides of the aisle. But claims that Democrats want to lock-down longer to get Trump out of office are absurd. Many of the states with lock-downs have Republican governors.
Well -- the states are moving forward. Most are in stage 1 of their re-openings. Albeit many should have waited till the end of May but were driven to re-open early by political & economic concerns. We will see what the end result of this is -- in a few mere weeks.
This is a good thing. Georgia opened up a couple weeks ago and things are going well, manageable if you will. Other states are experiencing the same level of success all things considered. Other than the known urban hot spots we can move forward. Spikes will occur and we must then manage them, but succumbing to the occasional blip is not something we can do. Unless the numbers go through the roof we must stay open for business.
Bank of America on the new world order: Bigger governments, tech wars, less privacy, and ‘health the new wealth’ https://www.marketwatch.com/story/b...-privacy-and-health-the-new-wealth-2020-05-15 Traders can’t seem to make up their mind this week. The Dow industrials DJIA, +0.25% fell 516 points on Wednesday and rose 377 points on Thursday. Say what you will about Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s testimony or the latest jobless claims data, neither can honestly be characterized as a surprise, so what the market is really doing is trying to grapple with the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic and when economies will rebound. Didier Saint-Georges, member of the strategic investment committee at French asset manager Carmignac, says his firm expects what he calls the Japanese path — “low growth, low interest rates forever, ample liquidity supply, in which case equity indices may trade sideways, but high quality growth stocks keep outperforming.” The risk is that of a prolonged recession that even aggressive central banks will struggle to fight, he adds. For those looking beyond the next few days, Bank of America has released its view of what the world will look like after the COVID-19 upheaval. “We expect this pandemic to accelerate many macro trends that would have taken five or more years to play out before, from peak globalization, to renewed tech wars and a reappraisal of health-care systems and government influence,” it says. It sees the rising tensions between east and west, with a third of its analysts now expecting the companies they cover to push for supply chain reshoring. A second theme is the race for tech supremacy, with half of its analysts expecting higher IT spending, and a wave of moonshot investment. Big Government will be back in a big way. “COVID-19 has handed governments a new social mandate to protect their citizens. Governments will exert greater influence on businesses with shareholder supremacy potentially eroding in favor of stakeholders,” it says. A fourth theme is that public health will be viewed as national wealth. “COVID-19 will amplify the importance of health care and its social role and accelerate other pressing global public health issues such as drug pricing, antibiotics resistance, future pandemics prevention, [and] universal vaccines for all,” the bank says. The Generation Z cohort will be “uniquely prepared” for the new era of social distancing, online and sustainability. By contrast, millennials — hit by the “double downgrade” of graduating into the financial crisis and then being hit by COVID-19 — are “most exposed to earning cuts.” Another possibility — after the crisis is over, is a baby boom: “as seen after many famines, earthquakes, and disease outbreaks.” (More at above url)
Pray tell how you are going to distinguish the "healthy" if no testing program en masse is in place and 50 % of carriers are asymptomatic through the ordeal and a lot of those who turn symptomatic are contagious before showing symptoms?
Meltdown. As long as it's OPM, the tards have absolutely no problem spending it. Surprised the Great Hag aka SanFranShitholeNan didn't sneak in Medicare4All and Fight415 while she was at it.