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Originally Posted by Blansky
On a theoretical level how do you see this pandemic ending. The people most at risk will always be at risk until a vaccine, I guess. And we can’t shut the world down forever. People need to work, civilization needs jobs, an economy etc.
What is the exit strategy. Quarantine high risk people only, wait a year or more for a vaccine....
No emotional responses please, just theoretically, what do you see as an end game here.
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At the moment the view here is that the spread of the disease needs to be curbed aggressively by isolation and social distancing, in order to minimise the strain on intensive care by too many cases popping up all at once. The idea seems to be you can relax some of these restrictions once intensive care beds are freed up, then re-implement them when cases rise.
The exit comes when there’s a vaccine or a cure, though as you say that might take a year or longer. In the meantime the economy gets marmalised.