Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Flattening the curve doesn't work

Read:  https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?singlepost=3520190

My paraphrase of this.  Social distancing if less than 40% of the population is exposed is pointless.  Because as soon as you lift the restrictions, then the virus will grow unchecked again.  You would really have to lock down the country for 6 months or more, maybe a year, to make sure this wouldn't happen. And this causes financial armageddon, which we are facing.

A better alternative would be to let it grow unchecked until at least a million people are infected, and then do the lockdown, which would be short.

For a competing argument see: https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-03-17-coronavirus-deaths-exceeding-original-pandemic-projection-model.html

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