Trump should release an EO stating that these measures cannot be implemented until such time that certain national death toll threshold has been met, say....100,000 deaths.
It would be interesting to run some estimates. How many hospitals do we have? Say 60,000 give or take? With almost a million beds. How many “blue people” per hour can a hospital manage and still function? 6? 60? I’m guessing no American hospital can continue to function with one blue patient per minute. Let’s take half that because I know of many hospitals that couldn’t handle one an hour. 30 times 60,000 is what? 1.8 million? We can probably handle 100,000 new cases of seriously ill people a day but somewhere between that number and multiples of that number there could be massive social dislocation.
It’s like piloting a star ship. You have to look out the back window to obtain navigational data. We won’t know what any of the real numbers are until we see what the death count is in three weeks. Let’s hope we can keep the “new cases per day” of really ill people South of 10,000. I don’t pretend to know and all my numbers are just made up but I don’t see anybody having this discussion.