Thread by @nuts2406

When Dr. Fauci recommends lockdown, he has no idea of the ground reality of the country. We do not have sufficient hospital beds, we do not have sufficient oxygen, we do not have sufficient life saving medicines. How will Lockdown help?
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How will people admit the severely ill relatives to hospital if there is a Lockdown?
There are patients in gurneys and ambulances outside hospitals waiting to be admitted. Many of them are on oxygen support. Lockdown will only lead to harassment of the attendants.
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Relatives are running between dealers trying to procure oxygen and/ or medication.
If there is a Lockdown, will these essentials miraculously get procured and delivered?
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The reality is that hospital infrastructure is absolutely inadequate to meet demand, and the common man doesn't have any confidence in existing systems.
No lockdown is going to keep people indoors while their relatives are dying. And these systems can't be set up overnight.
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The best that the government can do is to mandate that all business that can should shift to a wfh model, exams be cancelled, and restrictions placed on unnecessary gatherings.
A lockdown is neither feasible, nor possible.

What I am trying to says is that the family of the severely ill are likely to be the greatest spreaders, and in the absence of adequate systems, they cannot be contained even by a Lockdown. At this stage, Lockdown cannot be implemented.

Why it will be very difficult to implement a Lockdown at this point, and why we shouldn't even try.
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