"This was not really about government action ... it was really about getting people to understand the problem so that the people actually agreed to take these actions to protect themselves."
"I said to the people, basically, 'This is Andrew. My mother's Matilda. These are my daughters. This is my situation. My situation is like your situation. I'm in the same place that you are in...And I'm afraid for my family. So let's work this through together.'"
Now we need to recognize that the solution isn't with 1,000 cases per day in NY, or 100 cases per day. The exit is at zero cases of community transmission.
Sure there will be new outbreaks, but we can put them out too.
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We are already paying the price of the perpetual soft lockdown, and opening and closing the economy, because we can’t open up without causing so many cases that we have to shut down again anyway.
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Let’s be clear: Without a strong lockdown we can’t reverse the increases that happen when we try to open up.
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If we are determined to get to zero we can then open up. COVID free Green zone by green zone, it doesn’t take very long when the effort is in the right direction.
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is analyzing damage due to COVID and projecting further severe consequences if current policies persist. They state “despite involving short term economic costs, lockdowns may lead to faster economic recovery by containing the virus”
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Note: This report doesn’t do a dynamic analysis that makes things much clearer, but it does a thoughtful statistical analysis based upon increasingly available data.
“The analysis also finds that lockdowns are powerful instruments to reduce infections, especially when they are introduced early in a country’s epidemic and when they are sufficiently stringent.”
This figure is super important, showing the way different policies lead to different amounts of time till the goal is achieved. A bit more effort makes all the difference.
US yesterday 57,420, highest since mid-August. Canada yesterday 2,895, a new record for daily infections. Quebec, Ontario, Alberta all on the rise and surpassed their first peaks back in April.
Total cases in India surpass 7 million today, closing in on the US. In the meanwhile, India's daily infections have been declining for 4 weeks, now at 72k.
Russia yesterday 11,969, surpassing its peak back in May and set new record. The average daily death toll also surpassed the peak of first wave.
Proven by evidence: Evidence based science is like standing on a train track facing east saying: I won’t turn around until you prove to me there is a train coming from the west.
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Examples:
1) Not testing for COVID in places that didn’t previously have known cases of COVID.
2) Treating COVID like flu until hospitals are overwhelmed.