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[madscientistatlarge]

Every suggestion I've heard of for Measures in the U.S. has come with a time frame.  Watch interviews with CDC people and other experts.  The idea of the restrictions is to SLOW the spread, so that hospitals are not as overwhelmed and not so many people die.  NO, it won't change the number of people eventually sickened, It's about changing the shape of the curve, not the area under the curve.  The vaccines, are all at least a year off, Assuming initial testing yields positive results.  We live in a wonderful age, the beasty has already been sequenced but vaccines are still a tricky thing to develop.  Any one paying attention knows that even people who have been quarantined on military bases have broken quarantine in a few cases.  Hopefully there will be few who are so irresponsible.  I've worked for morons who expect staff to show up sick, so they can get everyone else sick, it's a terribly stupid mindset.  If you are fearful the solution is knowledge and understanding, not beating your' gums together, repeating bogus rumors and out right lies that some media outlets, and pundits are dumb enough to say outloud to an audience.

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On Tuesday, March 17, 2020 5:31 AM, Davide Del Vento <davide.del.vento at gmail.com> wrote:

>> 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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