Coronavirus
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I think what the world should’ve done is:
Yes:
- Social distancing as much as possible and staying at home.
- Close down public gatherings where people might be too close to each other (like festivals, night clubs, etc.)
- Wear masks if available
- Homeoffice for everyone who is able to work from home
- Putting a stop on traveling (holidays, flights).
No:
- Closing restaurants. I really don’t see a difference people walking around grocery stores or in restaurants. Maybe just limit the amount of people like at the beginning.
- Closing all stores. Again, really no difference if people walk around in grocery stores or in other kind of stores. Just enforce same rules (6ft apart, and maybe limited amount of customers at any given moment etc)
- Closing Hotels. Again what’s the difference here than people in apartments or Airbnb rentals?
I could go on and on. But I think you get the idea. In some ways the world really overreacted by closing things that make no difference to the stuff that was allowed and unnecessarily causing a lot of damage now with people losing their jobs and in the end more suffering.
I don’t agree with Trump and the right wingers and in some ways I also don’t agree with everything the way Sweden did it but as you can see they have no different numbers than usual and aren’t even in the top 10 despite no lockdown. And South Korea too had no real lockdown going on throughout this.
- There's no recipe for this, as each country has different dynamics...But the situation feels under control in most countries, except the US********
- but you need workers to run restaurants, stores and hotels, lots of workers -> lots of contacts, big spread.uan
- We know much now in hindsight, such as surface-distancing was more critical than social. There was so much overkill in the shutdown. I mean, tennis courts FFS********
- cool, didn't know you were scientist or medical profession who has spent years if not decades of their life dedicated to understanding viruses!inteliboy
- I mean TENNIS COURTS FFS! Waaaaaaa!scruffics
- There's no recipe for this, as each country has different dynamics...But the situation feels under control in most countries, except the US