Maybe Social Distancing is Wrong?

kmiklas

kmiklas

Are we allowed to question this tactic?

We're all being force-fed social distancing, and many have accepted it as gospel, but is it the right way to go?

- Jobs are being lost, interviews canceled, forcing people into poverty... poverty is a killer too!
- There is a psychological consequence of isolation
- Students' education is suffering
- (more..)

How effective is it _really_? Many of these people may practice social distancing for 23 hours a day... and then crowd into grocery stores to buy more toilet paper.

I'd like to open a dialogue about how effective it really is.
 
As long as you are not sharing droplets of cough and sneezes and washing your hands and reducing sharing food/drinks we are fine but humans are disgusting and cannot be trusted when there are elderly at risk and hospitals that will be overrun even from non-fatal cases.

A few weeks of this beats a few months of total shutdown when half the country is calling in sick.
 
kmiklas said:
Are we allowed to question this tactic?

We're all being force-fed social distancing, and many have accepted it as gospel, but is it the right way to go?

- Jobs are being lost, interviews canceled, forcing people into poverty... poverty is a killer too!
- There is a psychological consequence of isolation
- Students' education is suffering
- (more..)

How effective is it _really_? Many of these people may practice social distancing for 23 hours a day... and then crowd into grocery stores to buy more toilet paper.

I'd like to open a dialogue about how effective it really is.
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I guess it really depends on how many dead senior citizens you’re willing to accept.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/im...-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf
 
El OchoCinco said:
As long as you are not sharing droplets of cough and sneezes and washing your hands and reducing sharing food/drinks we are fine but humans are disgusting and cannot be trusted when there are elderly at risk and hospitals that will be overrun even from non-fatal cases.

A few weeks of this beats a few months of total shutdown when half the country is calling in sick.
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A few weeks is possible in the best case scenario. If we flatten this without effective testing systems until a vaccine or effective therapy then we will be right back in the same boat.
 
Consider this graph, which shows one possible outcome of social distancing.

Perhaps social distancing does more harm than good?

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Its not social distancing until you are fumbling for .308 to protect the toilet paper.

Roving bands of armed organized toilet paper snatchers. Protect the 2-ply!
 
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