awaken
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It's been 100% clear what needs to be done to get out of where we are - we just aren't doing it.
You're damn right there wasn't much benefit the past two months.
There are three paths we can take:
1. Just say "fuck it" and live our lives again, accepting that a lot of people will needlessly die.
2. Hedge between lockdown and full living, but don't expand testing/tracing enough to know who really has it.
3. Do what countries like South Korea have done and get testing/tracing available for everybody (not just "we have testing", but actually enough).
Almost everybody thinks No. 1 is unacceptable...hell I'm sure 2and2 is even against this.
We have made it clear that we aren't going to do No. 3.
So No. 2 is what we are going to do, which will not sustain businesses like restaurants, entertainment, or basically anything that is not essential for human beings. It will also lead to a lot of deaths as a second spike comes and we get back to where we are.
It's a very clear path forward - No. 3...but for "some unknown reason" we just aren't doing it.
I agree that #3 is needed and just not happening due to poor leadership. So my guess is that poor leadership means we will vacillate between #1 and #2. No national leadership or cohesive plan, and governors will open up as hospital bandwidth allows, then shut back down as they approach their max.
We should tell SEC fans that they need to get Covid-19 in order to attend football games (you could pack'em in then), and they'll be licking every toilet seat and door handle. Those that survive are happy, and those that die before November can't vote. As close to a win/win I can devise.