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Ask HN: Why not just quarantine old people and risk groups?

1 pointsby johnmaxabout 5 years ago
I am curious to hear your Corona solutions? My suggestions:<p>1: Only quarantine old people and risk groups (&gt;65y or pre-conditions of lung&#x2F;heart). They get free delivery everything.<p>2: Let others work and spend money, as long as they are not in crowds.<p>3: World War II style industry mobilisation: Government buys x% of hotel bedrooms and turns them into war hospitals. Increase capacity of life-saving things by factor 100 (eg ventilators, masks).<p>Meantime: - Test 1000 random people per region, weekly, to get true death rate - Don&#x27;t forget negative consequences on health&#x2F;additional deaths from increased poverty, if economy is hit too hard

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simonblackabout 5 years ago
<i>Everybody</i> is in the risk group. (Nobody has any immunity.) Everybody is a carrier&#x2F;spreader.<p>Many deaths have been people in the under-65 age groups.<p>Your system would lead to many thousands of sick people very quickly. That would &#x27;heighten the curve&#x27; and overload the health system.<p>On the other hand, it would lead to a rapid spread of the virus, most people would get it very quickly. Some people would die, yes. The rest would recover and the wave of &#x27;plague&#x27; would be over quickly also. It would pretty much be a copy of the progress of the Spanish-Flu pandemic of 1918-1920.