So then how about we stop being wusses and get out there and tell the elderly and sick to stay at home. It’s a good thing they didn’t investigate whether fighting in world war II would cause American deaths. The answer would have been yes. And quarantine for all American men probably would have made it difficult to win world war II.
and yes each death was terrible but it needed to be done. Or far much worse waited.
Just like now
That's the nully hacienda.
Works for me.
I look at as more of Walking the Tightrope rather than flattening a curve because once the curve is relatively flat and then you reverse course it’s just going to come back and bite you in the ass. Viruses are funny that way. This isn’t the first virus in the history of this country that we’ve had a quarantine on at this scale yes but viruses don’t care about scale. A viral outbreak will scale up or down depending on the host population.
Apparently for D-Day, Eisenhower found a 75% fatal casualty rate acceptable, as long as the objective of taking ans securing those beaches was completed.
Too many Americans need fainting couches. Start opening up gradually - for most parts of the country, anyway - beginning April 30. Hot spots (like my own town) could wait until May 15, I suppose.