Undone
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You're right though. There's risk either way. Of course we're waiting on a vaccine. But in the meantime this thing will come for us whether we treat it seriously and act accordingly or not. One leads to a lot better outcomes.
This is possibly veering more towards the kinds of conversations we'd want to have in the COVID thread in P&R, maybe.
I think what we've tended to do with conversations around COVID - because this thing is so new and so scary - is to look at only the present time frame; that is, we say "How many cases does the U.S. have right now?" Then we compare to some other month domestically, or we compare it to some other country.
But from what I've seen, unless you do what New Zealand did, you don't necessarily really put much of a dent in your total long-term case counts & death rate from these multiple phases of curve flattening. The curve flattening is still good, no doubt - but until you reach herd immunity, your total propensity for infection rates is basically unchanged. You're just spreading out the time frame under which the virus runs its course and/or mutates into something else.
Just food for thought. I'm constantly trying to take in as much data on C19 and adjust my viewpoints on how the data should impact policy making, etc.
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