[lug] CANCELLED: Boulder Linux User's Group - March Meeting - Boulder Linux Users Group - Mar 12, 2020

[Davide Del Vento]

>
> Well, that's about it. Oh, in case anyone is wondering about U.S.
> jurisprudence in this regard:
>
> https://reason.com/2020/03/11/would-italian-style-lockdowns-to-curtail-the-spread-of-coronavirus-pass-legal-muster-in-the-u-s/
> Just in case that breaks: http://tinyurl.com/tdal4ju
>

Thank you, thank you. I really needed to know this, and I am glad to learn
that it's very unlikely that they'd pass Italian-style laws here in the
USA. Thanks!

PS (my last intervention, and then I'll shut up, I promise): one thing that
I've not heard from the pro-restrictions camp, is for how long you want
these restrictions to last. It's one thing to say "let's have (voluntary)
restriction to keep the number of cases below medical facilities capacity"
(and I support that). It's another thing to say "let's have (mandatory)
restrictions to keep the numbers of cases to the absolute minimum" (and I
hate that). Because this epidemic will not be stopped by restrictions
(Randall had covered this very topic in an absurd "what if" chapter in is
book https://www.amazon.com/dp/0544456866 -- it is about the common cold,
but other than that is exactly the topic we are discussing). The pandemic
will be stopped when a large swath of a population becomes immunized,
either by catching the disease or by a vaccine. In either case, my
understanding is that it will take about a year, and perhaps more.
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