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by qqqwerty 2249 days ago
I think almost everyone you are debating in this thread would support opening things up provided a few conditions were met. The primary condition for most of us is we need adequate testing and contract tracing capacity. And the reason that this is necessary:

> healthcare facilities remain un-saturated

You can't simply look at the current burden on the health care system to guide the process. The virus has a 2-3 week lag time between when an infection cluster breaks out, and when the health care system starts to feel the impact. Without wide scale testing, we are just going to end up back in a lock down once the infection numbers start climbing again. And I can't think of a worse scenario for our economy than having to shut things down every other month because our government is to incompetent to implement a tracing program that multiple countries already have up and running.