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Old Mar 13, 2020 | 2:06 am
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Originally Posted by Smiley90
It likely would but the economical impact would be immense. You have to try and strike a fine balance between underreacting and overreacting. You basically have no chance of completely containing it, so now you're just trying to keep the rate of new infections below a rate that would overwhelm hospitals with critical cases.
It would, but the rate we're going I can see that by December people will be filing for bankruptcy if there is no vaccine or slowdown in the sick/death rate in the next 2 months that will allow work schedules to get back to normal. Isn't avoiding that future worth a temporary dip if a home quarantine will do it?
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