I think until we can get mass testing and have an understanding of where we really are with this thing a nation wide shelter in place is absolutely necessary. Once we get caught up with testing and everything we can loosen restrictions on areas that aren't having issues with this but we can't know where those places are right now with the amount of testing we have done.
Look at Lombardy Italy, 1/6 the population and 65% of the fatalities. Different communities are going to get hit harder. But I agree in a sense, let’s not have non essential businesses requiring people to go to work. Let’s have as many people work from home that we can, let’s definitely put an emphasis on acquiring more PPE for our healthcare workers, hospitals should be putting protocols into place for ventilator usage. This is gonna suck, we’re gonna get punched in the mouth, gotta take the blow and move forward - we’re gonna get through this.
Not to and from while in your own car. South Korea did massive numbers of drive-through testing for that very reason. The US is starting to get drive-through testing up and running.
From what I understand, cloth masks can stop you from infecting others but don't protect you from infection. I could be wrong but that's what I was reading.That's where the N95 masks come into play. I am reading that many are putting cloth masks over N95s to elongate usage of the N95s. That said the cloth masks are still a great tool to utilize if anything to keep essential workers in their posts without as much risk of infecting others
powerline is a right-wing blog that's known for science denial, not a good source when talking about a pandemic.
I'm sure they prefaced it with the information about increased testing. The numbers are going to be very muddy for another week I would guess. It's great that people are being tested, but it's going to make it hard to tell what's really happening for a bit.
