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by _yid9 2267 days ago
Then, we’re “flattening the curve”, infecting old and infirm people for 6 months, until a vaccine is ready.

That’s the plan.

That’s a bad plan.

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There's not going to be a good plan. The good plan set sail in early January when we didn't consider SARS-CoV-2 a serious concern. So now we're choosing between flattening the curve to mitigate the overall death toll, or ignoring the moral cost and having 2.5m Americans die. I'm pretty sure where I stand on this.

And a vaccine won't be ready in 6 months. 12-18 is more like it, though we might be lucky and stumble upon a treatment to the disease itself.