Social Distancing is Working

Outside of NYC and NOLA, which we can use as a barometer of how bad this could get, Trump really has done a phenomenal job responding to this pandemic. Social distancing has worked for the majority of the country and now Hydroxychlroquine/Z pack has shown promising results. There’s been an increase in protective masks and ventilator production. There’s a lot of reasons to be hopeful

However, if you go back on that now and send people back to work like nothing happened, it will be a colossal failure. Severe cases and deaths will rise to the millions and flood hospitals if you go back RIGHT NOW. People who would normally have a hospital bed for a heart attack, flu, GI bleed, bacterial pneumonia would die without hospital staff/resources available. That would almost certainly outnumber the deaths from suicide people are touting will come about if we don’t get back to work now.

TLDR; Just wait for the next month. We’re not talking July or August. It’s not “4-9 months.” Just wait until we replenish stock of medications, masks, ventilators and for the weather to change. Hospitals will be better prepared for the time when we DO go back to work in April.