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Originally Posted by crystalworks
Wearing a mask is not what people are upset about. If they could open businesses tomorrow but have to wear masks, they gladly would.
As the far left or far right is apt to do, you are trying to apply a single method of attack to a 350 million person population, spread across vast distances, with varying population densities, methods of transportation, with vastly different experiences of this pandemic. Some states haven't hit triple digit deaths yet.
Let me ask this, how long do you think a shelter in place order would take to guarantee the virus would not come back? I think it would take until you could test every adult in the population.
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A joint strategy doesn't mean every state uses the exact same strategy for infection prevention. I'm sure it'll be revised according to each state's particular needs due to their own unique geographic, demographic, and other variables and considerations.
But there should be some basic rules that will apply across the board, for instance the requirement to wear masks when in public, making Purell or equivalent available for all meetings or at access points and keeping 6 ft apart, etc, especially when the interaction is across statelines.
I'm certainly no expert but I have been waiting thus far without joy to see some concrete and thoughtful plan to open the economy from the federal level .
As for the exact duration for implementing the stay at home order, this is certainly not an easy question to answer.
Stay home too long and you won't have an economy to go back to, stay too short and you risk expanding an ever increasing infected population.
"Hammer and dance", is probably a good approach. You "tiptoe", or open the economy in a limited fashion while maintaining all prevention measures available, and see what happens. If the infection rate goes up, you bring down the hammer (the stay home mandate).
It's not going to be a smooth transition. There's going to be a lot of start and stop. But it might just be the new norm that brings us control over our lives and over this nasty virus.