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I think this is really a battle against ignorance. Until people see results in front of them they aren't going to respect these rules without authoritarian measures.

Best is to shut everything down for a month THEN let 40s and under back to work. By then, hospitals will have been overrun but hopefully on the upswing and people will be a lot more sober and willing to listen.

I imagine once the shutdowns happen and reality sets in, people will not want to go out and expose themselves willingly and politicians will rather keep everyone locked up as long as possible, but that is a mistake too. Everything hits with a 2 week lag so it is import to trust the trends and the analysis rather than the current situation - I expect us to be too conservative on the way out just as we have been too cavalier on the way in.




" Until people see results in front of them they aren't going to respect these rules without authoritarian measures."

Doubtful.

Here in Montreal, the streets are bare. Restaurants are at 50% capacity, there is no toilet paper anywhere.

We only have ~100 official infections in 30M people.

People are taking this pretty seriously and at least as far as 'not going out' and 'social distancing' it's going to be relatively easy to enforce.

There are few 'draconian' measures being taken by any government really anyhow.

I think we'll be doing this for 6 months at least.




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