On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 08:29:56PM +0100, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: > I really think it is a criminal wrong decision. We are just helping to spread the fear. No, it's a realistic decision. A vaccine is likely a year-ish away barring a serendipitous breakthrough. Italy shut down the entire country effective this morning. US Universities and colleges are sending their students home. And so on -- because the only viable method available for slowing the spread is social distancing. COVID-19 will still propagate, but it will propagate more slowly, flattening the demand curve for medical resources, including personnel, hospital rooms, ICU space, etc. (And those of us in the US had better hope that works because the current infection rate projections look ominous circa March 20 and the testing rate is orders of magnitude below where it needs to be.) Everything done before a pandemic looks like too much, everything done after it hits looks like too little. ---rsk
