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Re: Trump's Restart Plan

Posted by Easy on Fri Mar 27 10:33:04 2020, in response to Re: Trump's Restart Plan, posted by AlM on Fri Mar 27 01:24:01 2020.

I tend to disagree. Remember that the purpose of people staying home has always been to “flatten the curve”. It was never to keep people home until the virus was no longer a risk. Flattening the curve allows medical facilities to keep up with demand.

So if that’s the purpose, people living and working in rural counties may have never needed to shelter at all. People in rural counties tend to come into contact with far fewer people on a weekly basis than the average New Yorker would just on one morning commute. And it’s often the same few people over and over. They are comparatively already sheltered compared to big city residents.

So opening up rural counties opens up 3/4 of the country, but as Spider Pig is likely to point out, maybe only 10% of the population. Not really significant. But if that same logic were applied to less populated suburban counties, suddenly half the country is reopened.

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