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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Tom Friedman seems sympathetic to an adjustment in approach: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/o...s-economy.html

Tom Friedman's approach seems to depend on levels of cooperation, compliance and national leadership that seem lacking.

And this guy: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/o...istancing.html

"So what is the alternative? Well, we could focus our resources on testing and protecting, in every way possible, all those people the data indicate are especially vulnerable to severe infection: the elderly, people with chronic diseases and the immunologically compromised. Those that test positive could be the first to receive the first approved antivirals. The majority, testing negative, could benefit from every resource we have to shield them from exposure."

That would have been great, but because the federal government screwed up the testing for so long, we now don't have the resources to do that. We don't have the tests, we don't have the healthcare workers, we don't have the equipment to protect them, and we also don't have the antivirals. Why not just hypothesize a magical pony that will make the virus go away?