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On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:13:46 -0400,
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On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 00:44:26 -0400, wrote:

So are you suggesting our attempt (and success) at flattening the curve was
unnecessary? No matter how steeply the curve climbed our medical system could
have handled it? That's bull**** and you know it.

I just wonder how little we really needed to do to accomplish that.

Of course if you are right, we could still have been at the gym, disco
or Easter services if we just had a mask. :-)

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In the absence of an effective vaccine or treatment it will take a
combination of actions to keep this thing under control. Mask
wearing, social distancing and avoidance of high risk behavior can all
help with that. People who refuse out of some misguided notion should
be subjected to peer pressure since the govrnment can't be everywhere
and peer pressure is probably more effective.

It certainly is becoming apparent that the only way to open is to get
some form of immunity and without an effective vaccine, that comes by
people surviving the infection.
You can try to sugar coat it but that is the reality.
New Zealand got a lesson last week. One guy potentially infected a
couple hundred people (I haven't seen the real number of infections
but something like 280 were quarantined) in spite of sealing the
borders of the country. There was no immunity so one stray case
rippled through everyone he met and the people who met him met.

Without functional immunity, imagine that in the US where an infected
person can freely travel coast to coast in hours.

I was talking to my wife today. How would you "contact trace" everyone
who might have been infected by someone in a movie a week ago, in a
ceneplex with 12 theaters?

Imagine a ball game where people are shoulder to shoulder in the
stands, bathrooms, concourses and concessions.
John is the math wizard. If 20,000 people at a ball game then contact
5 more people who contact 5 more each(a pretty low estimate actually)
how many people are we talking about?