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Masks now may be required recommended in this country, when a month ago the experts said it would do no good.
FTFY.Also, the issue never was that "They would do no good," but rather there was (and is) a shortage of masks and the experts wanted them on the faces of those who needed them most.
Actually there was info refuting the mask as an effective preventative. I think the WHO still takes this position. Knowing what we know about the asymptomatic though. I don’t know why we don’t all slap one on as soon as the shortage is done.
Here's what WHO said Monday:"There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit. In fact, there's some evidence to suggest the opposite in the misuse of wearing a mask properly or fitting it properly," Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO health emergencies program, said at a media briefing in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday."There also is the issue that we have a massive global shortage," Ryan said about masks and other medical supplies. "Right now the people most at risk from this virus are frontline health workers who are exposed to the virus every second of every day. The thought of them not having masks is horrific."
I have read in several places the biggest thing is not being familier with the mask will cause us to touch our face more. so along the same lines as above
How do you not let the virus spark up again? That's the question for the future. The answer is to kill the virus e.g. realize a vaccine. If that could truly be more than a year away, we're doomed.If we're simply delaying the virus hitting people and just trying to flatten the curve, then the fact that NYC is at one point on this journey and others are different is very important. How can we imagine big public events, sporting events and such to resume in the next year+ with the amount of travel going on?Maybe the reality is that most people have to get the virus, fight through and we hope they win. It's just a healthcare capacity issue. Some get it early, we stall (like in MN's case)... see what happens... and go from there. That may mean 'normal' is many, many months off. Social distancing 4 life
My pet peeve.It is "physical" distancing.
I think this is all correct. And the capacity issue is greater than the ability to care for COVID patients - it impacts others receiving vital care who might otherwise be turned away or become COVID patients themselves. Hard to believe that any sporting events resume with that in mind. I understand organizations stretching this out as long as possible, but I just don't see how it happens.
Social distancing 4 life
Obviously I'm no epidemiologist, but I'm thinking absolute best case is Nov/Dec in terms of sports going ahead with fans.
That may mean 'normal' is many, many months off.
Yep. Maybe people will figure out ways to get a few of the currently closed businesses back open here and there, but any large-scale reopening of shuttered businesses, or any events with big crowds, are still months away.As far as sports, I'm betting the NBA is done for the year, and MLB might go without any season at all. They may even need to delay (gasp!) the NFL. IMHO, the best way to get out of this economically might be a government-run "New Deal" type of program. Find the people who have had the illness (either through positive test and then recovery, or by presence of antibodies after an asymptomatic infection), and then put any who are unemployed to work rebuilding our roads and bridges, maybe building solar and wind facilities, etc. Obviously that would take larger scale testing and then training for new jobs, but that way, we fix infrastructure issues we have been facing for years, get people back to work, and hopefully rebuild the economy.
IMO, society as a whole will make the calculation that more deaths are worth the trade offs for additional freedoms long before then.
A good friend of mine has a past life as a public health professional. She thinks we will gradually see bans lifted starting in May (restaurants open, smaller events allowed) running through to September when large crowds will be allowed.Her theory is that we have way more assymptomatic and mildly symptomatic carriers than we are measuring, meaning we will gain a degree of herd immunity over the summer.