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Biotech / Medical : Coronavirus / COVID-19 Pandemic -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (1615)	4/23/2020 8:22:39 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 22884

I think it should be decided by the states not as a central government thing. Yes, the state governors have total authority. Also I don't think it should mostly be an open or close thing but opening in different stages. Things like packing a stadium with 80,000 fans would have to wait for wide spread deployment of an effective vaccine and/or a near disappearance of the disease. Things like allowing ordinary small businesses to run with some attempt at social distancing should come much earlier then that. Agree. Hopefully, most governors will have the sense to do it properly if they hope to be re-elected. Although I think they'd also be wise to follow the Presidential commission's advice on waiting for a 14 day period of downward cv19 cases before reopening.

To: TimF who wrote (1615)	4/23/2020 9:09:30 AM
From: Sam	1 Recommendation Recommended By The Ox Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22884

The problem with having individual states decide what should be open is that of course there is movement between states. People who are asymptomatic may just go to a state that has opened and spread the disease anew. That is the problem with Texas's approach too: they propose to open up different counties at different rates-- cf star-telegram.com . Unemployed people will go to where they might find a job. We are one country, one very large country. Not a country loosely grouped with a lot of independent states. We have free movement both between states and within states. We can't compromise that. That has enormous advantages in normal times and clear disadvantages in times like this.