SpeakEasy wrote:
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Now, if we all keep to the stay-at-home routine, the virus isn't going away. At some point, when we all start to venture out again -whenever that is - the virus will still be out there. We aren't eliminating it by staying home.
-Speak
The stay at home orders were never intended to “make the virus go away”. They are intended to give the health care system time to get the necessary supplies and testing capability in place to deal with the much higher level of illness and severity of illness that is coming with this pandemic.
Go look at the developing situation in Grand Island NE and assess if you think their testing capability and health care capability is ready for the increasing level of illness.
Do you think the supply of PPE and testing capability is high enough to handle the current level of illness or the increased level of illness that will occur when the stay at home orders are lifted?
The question shouldn’t be “when will we open the economy”; the question should be “when will (or why isn’t) our health care system ready for an open economy”.