A better way to handle the Coronavirus? (Without plunging the country into a great depression)

American Thinker ^ | 04/04/2020 | By Earick Ward

[SeekAndFind]

As the COVID-19 pandemic has caused state, federal, and international governments to impose various degrees of "safer at home" orders to flatten the curve, at some point we will have to begin to discuss whether the cure (economic Armageddon) is as bad as, if not worse than the disease.

While I won't question the medical rationale for making such recommendations, the question for Americans that must be addressed is, when and how will we exit the coronavirus turnpike?

The economic impact of the national shutdown is estimated to displace upwards of 53 million American workers. What will be the impact on American lives as a result of the economic shutdown instituted by the governments' response to the coronavirus?.

Economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis are warning that if the current rate of U.S. job losses continues, the country's unemployment rate could reach a staggering 32.1% by the end of June as the coronavirus pandemic–induced downturn sparks mass layoffs across the nation.

We as a society, and particularly as a free society, need to begin to have the discussion of how and when we will begin to take the off-ramp from the coronavirus shutdown. Lives will be lost as a result of impending financial ruin.

One idea (presented below) is to move away from the strict "one size fits all" model currently in place and toward a coronavirus risk model based in part on the testing that is coming online. While not comprehensive, the following model could provide a method for returning to some semblance of societal and economic normalcy.

[Sequoyah101]

Germany is testing 350,000 to 500,000 people A DAY now.

I see that we have managed to test a whopping 1.3 million in the last two or three weeks. Wow, I’m not impressed at all.

CDC did this to us. They are a waste of Money.

Testing, isolation, retesting are the only way to manage this without destroying the economy completely until a vaccine is developed. Until then, we are all at risk and some are very much at risk of dying and the numbers are higher than just the flu.

[oincobx]

So how many weeks do you think it would take to set up a testing plan like this? What should we do differtly fro our current efforts until this is in place?

[Svartalfiar]

If you are experiencing flu-like symptoms, you should self-quarantine and be tested and retested to confirm COVID-19 or to rule it out.

WAIT WHAT. So is the Wuhan virus classified as a "flu-like illness" now? So that means CDC will include all cases for it in their annual flu report?

[elbook]

How about ‘redistributing the wealth’ of Rich leftist Liberals ??

Hypocrisy on their part - and we would be doing them a favor to help them no longer be Hypocrites. They need this help as they seem trapped in that evil.

Start with Pelosi and her family - to rid them of their ill-gotten gains made on the backs of the poor...

Living just above the poverty line should be GOOD ENUF, and all the rest can be better spent on ‘the poor’.

An Idea whose time has come ......

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