When is the right time to reopen the US economy? Our panelists' verdict

[turbinetree]

Heidi Shierholz: ‘Let public health officials decide’

Robert Reich: ‘The economy will only reopen when we feel safe’

Renee C Wurth: ‘We can’t reopen before we are unified’

Jeffrey Pfeffer: There is no trade-off between health and economics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/16/when-is-the-right-time-to-reopen-the-us-economy-coronavirus-our-panelists-verdict

[mitch96]

1. To me it's not rocket science.. What countries have opened their economy.......

What was their experience, what would they do different and then DO WHAT THEY DO...
Iceland has had good experience and the same with Ireland... The common thread is
TESTING, TESTING AND MORE TESTING. You can't hit a target if you don't know where it is..
YMMV,
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[turbinetree]

2. Only people with common sense knows what you are saying is needed.........

in this country those that are whining about reopening the country think that you and me and everyone else should be experiments like lab rats............if you make it good, if you don't, well good in there sick stupidity.................

[mitch96]

4. "people with common sense"

And the old retort... If common sense was so common how come more people don't have it..

Sweden tried the no quarantine thing... People started dying at a alarming rate..... And then there is truth in reporting.. Belgium is high but they are very transparent with what is actually going on... Trying to get true numbers is very difficult when countries lie..
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[turbinetree]

5. And a orange hair jerk trying to pass the buck at every juncture so that he can get on some

podium and say, see they failed................see this train coming...........

[Caliman73]

3. We could be on our way to reopening IF we had a real idea of where we were...

The problem with our ENTIRE system (if you can even call it that) of health care and public health is that the information we have is wildly inaccurate and to a large extent, it is deliberately so. If we had mass testing and tracing like South Korea, Taiwan, etc... then we would have a better understanding of where we were. The experts are good and they are doing their best, but the reality is that they are not getting any help from the Federal Government and that is because the idiot in the White House doesn't want an accurate number of the infected. Our reliance on "Just in time" supplies for vital medical needs is insane.

He is wasting everybody's time trying to shift blame, pushing stupid "cures", and inciting lawlessness for political gain, rather than focusing on how to really solve the problem.

[crickets]

6. +1