August 18, 2020 06:23AM | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 5,027
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well lest start with the obvious...
1. i dont think washing your hands is ever a bad thing.
2. wearing a face covering i find inconvenient but its probably not bad. ironically the evidence of wearing a face covering to prevent YOU from getting sick is minimal (which was the original purpose of the face mask) but from what i have seen it does seem to help stop the spread (although most of this data is preliminary because prior to covid no one really looked at that question). further there is some evidence although mostly anecdotal that it may actually increase the wearers chance of getting infected because you may touch your face more.
3. social distancing and in particular, the stay-at-home orders have had and will continue to have some serious long term economic, social, and health (both physical and mental) repercussions. in fact i think they will may have long term impact on the way business is done as business realize they dont need offices etc. this may effect the way people live, moving away from cities, etc. in any event, the original idea of these policies was to slow the virus, which it probably did. but these polices cant stop the virus. and im not sure any policy outside of a vaccine can. humans historically imo have little luck in trying to bend nature to their will. it may be a bleak view, but maybe it just needs to run its course? overall, i think the question will be whether the benefits of these policies outweigh the costs. unfortunately thats difficult to gauge at this junction for a number of reasons..
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Well I think that scientist dont know enough about the coronavirus to offer sound public policy advice period whether that being based on herd immunity or not.
Interesting.
The primary public policy advice I've seen coming from the scientists include: an early issuance of "stay-at-home" orders to mitigate the type of spread that might overwhelm the healthcare system; wearing face-covers when out in public; maintaining social distance; and, frequent washing of hands.
Despite the fact that we're dealing with a coronavirus, do you believe that any one of these advisements were/are: unsound or quantifiably harmful/unhelpful?
BTW...because I don't want my question (or your reply) to be misconstrued as being argumentative one way or the other (and this jeopardize this informative thread), I will just accept your answer and keep it moving without a response.
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