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Originally Posted by bradical
There is no answer right now. I believe 2-weeks has been the provided guidance.
I can see how you want to focus on deaths with all of this, but the larger risk is our health care system. We do not have the beds/doctors to go around if this continues to spread at its current rate. People will survive this. It's been said numerous times. And, people will die from this. But the more critical measuring stick is how over run, over worked, and depleted our health care system is going to be. Then what happens to all of the patients who need other life-risking procedures. Hospital beds and ERs are overran with COVID patients, but where do you go for your appendicitis? Are you going to want a doctor coming off their 7th straight 16 hour shift performing an operation on you?
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We've never done this for any reason; ever. Wars, pandemics, viruses etc. And here we are, worried about a "possible" problem.
It's insanity. Pure insanity. 2 weeks will turn into 2 months and we'll wipe out the economy completely. U.S. will have thrown itself (and the world in a large part) into economic ruin.
All to save a very small subset of the lives of the elderly, who are looking at us like we're crazy because they're the ones who have lived through far worse.