Come on folks. There is no magic to this. The science is already known by now.
Lock down hard for 4 weeks (or 28 days). The virus only has a safe maximum 21 day incubation period (the normal is 14 days).
By that point, you will know who is infected.
Get them isolated. You don’t need to do any blood tests, or PCR tests, or MRI tests. Get everyone’s temperature taken daily, like a census.
For those that are showing signs of a fever, you isolate them in a LEVEL 1, general population makeshift ward.
For those that have more severe cases, like difficulty breathing, you isolate them in a LEVEL 2 quarantine zone.
For those that need hospitalization and invasive intubation, they go into the LEVEL 3 zone and get ICU care.
Every state can set up multiple cities and regions for these facilities. Transport the sick people to the given area, so that they can get the care they need. Then transport them home, when they are recovered.
This sounds expensive, but it sure as hell, is far cheaper than the $4 Trillion to $10 Trillion dollar bailouts, that the Republicans are handing out to their buddies, like candies.
Can you imagine? Trump just got another $569 Million [1] for his wall. Sneaky bastard. How does this even help fight the coronavirus? By keeping out infected Mexicans? (Well.. maybe..)
For everyone else, they must stay at home. Groceries will need to be pre-packaged, and delivered to them. Or they drive up to the grocery store to pick it up, and someone drops it into their trunk, with minimal human contact.
All of the infections in the community must be happening at supermarkets, or public buses, subways, trains, and airplanes. Places where there is minimal ventilation happening, and you can walk into someone’s death cloud, or breath in their infected air. And make everyone wear masks.
The basic transmission science is already known. Now, we need to just do a hard 4 week lockdown and make it happen.
Lock down hard for 4 weeks (or 28 days). The virus only has a safe maximum 21 day incubation period (the normal is 14 days).
By that point, you will know who is infected.
Get them isolated. You don’t need to do any blood tests, or PCR tests, or MRI tests. Get everyone’s temperature taken daily, like a census.
For those that are showing signs of a fever, you isolate them in a LEVEL 1, general population makeshift ward.
For those that have more severe cases, like difficulty breathing, you isolate them in a LEVEL 2 quarantine zone.
For those that need hospitalization and invasive intubation, they go into the LEVEL 3 zone and get ICU care.
Every state can set up multiple cities and regions for these facilities. Transport the sick people to the given area, so that they can get the care they need. Then transport them home, when they are recovered.
This sounds expensive, but it sure as hell, is far cheaper than the $4 Trillion to $10 Trillion dollar bailouts, that the Republicans are handing out to their buddies, like candies.
Can you imagine? Trump just got another $569 Million [1] for his wall. Sneaky bastard. How does this even help fight the coronavirus? By keeping out infected Mexicans? (Well.. maybe..)
For everyone else, they must stay at home. Groceries will need to be pre-packaged, and delivered to them. Or they drive up to the grocery store to pick it up, and someone drops it into their trunk, with minimal human contact.
All of the infections in the community must be happening at supermarkets, or public buses, subways, trains, and airplanes. Places where there is minimal ventilation happening, and you can walk into someone’s death cloud, or breath in their infected air. And make everyone wear masks.
The basic transmission science is already known. Now, we need to just do a hard 4 week lockdown and make it happen.
[1] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/sorry-hospitals-trum...