re: Where do you stand? Open it back up? Or keep it shut down?

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I guess my question here, is at what point does the cure (not literal cure but what we are doing now) for the virus become worse than the virus itself?

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The thing about social distancing is that if you do it right, it makes it the virus seem not that bad. The projections were 2 million dead if we had done nothing.

That's a counterfactual, so we'll never know what would have happened. But I, for one, am happy that we'll never know.

If we did this....

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Shutdown until a vaccine

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This would be the result...

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Mad Max

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Yeah but NOLA is exactly the type of place that could get immediately overburdened again if things are opened up too soon. No offense, but it's not somewhere that I think will govern itself very well. I'm not advocating for more government overreach, but I do think it's wise for a place like NOLA to get numbers really really low for itself and for places where people who come to NOLA live before trying to even gradually reopen.

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This.

I firmly believe NOLA would get assblasted by COVID again (maybe even worse) if the government lifted all restrictions tomorrow and just asked people to continue to be responsible. The re-opening needs to be gradual.

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Define adequate.

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Enough to where people with symptoms, or have been around someone with symptoms, can go to their primary doc and get a test, and get results relatively quickly.

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And what if it takes until like June or even July to have enough rest kits?

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Then that is an unfortunate reality.

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I guess my question here, is at what point does the cure (not literal cure but what we are doing now) for the virus become worse than the virus itself?

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I don't think anyone can really say because there is so many unknowns about this virus right now. Why does it rapidly spread in certain communities, and not others? Why does it target certain demographics and not others? Why do some people never show symptoms while testing positive for it, while others show rapid increase in symptoms from the first sign of symptoms?

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Some of these people (me) are in the camp of "I want to go back to life ASAP but I also don't want another prolonged shutdown because we reopened in the peak of the curve"

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Yep.

Need to have several days of declining cases across the country to open back up in phases (very limited). It starts to rise again, shut it back down.

We can't risk overwhelming hospitals/medical facilities. If we do, the economy will be the least of your worries.

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I firmly believe NOLA would get assblasted by COVID again (maybe even worse) if the government lifted all restrictions tomorrow and just asked people to continue to be responsible.

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Yeah, people have shown that they have no chance of behaving responsibly with this shite. That wasn't surprising or anything, but this whole "Let the public handle it their own way," line of thinking is just absurd to me.

IMO - we are probably still a week or so from the national peak. Let's get through that and then talk about a gradual re-opening while keeping immuno-compromised citizens in mind as best we can.

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Open it up May 1. If you choose to go out, you sign a waiver that says you knew the risk and are not allowed to take up hospital beds. Take your chances.

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Can we also make people who purchase alcohol and/or cigarettes, drive fast cars, bungee jump, skydive, swim with sharks, operate vehicles, etc.....sign a similar waiver?

What about for those who don’t show up to work on May 1st and are fired can’t file for unemployment or receive government benefits?

Of course not, dumb fricking post.

I think we stay status quo for another 10 days. If the trends continue we start opening back up gradually. Still minimizing anything or anywhere with large crowds and keep our nursing homes and elderly quarantined another 60 days.

I think we should see how this week goes before making any rash decisions. I want everything open again, but I want to make sure we don’t cause a surge we can’t control.