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We need this in affected communities within US now.
Nobody will be allowed to leave home, with three exceptions only:
- going to work and come back home, if it is not possible to work from home
- buying food
- using urgent health services
Wonder whether Musk considers this panic ...
I just finished watching tonights White House press conference.
My takeaways;
1. They are pushing a payroll tax cut to help workers.
2. They are directing Americans to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) which redirects to the CDC website section on Coronavirus.
3. CDC & private labs on on track to have 2M tests available, and production capacity for 4M per week going forward.
Sure the payroll tax will help the economy but it's not targeted at the areas we need most like paid sick leave or free testing for those who have symptoms. When we see full on panic, Americans will stop spending money, and getting a few % more in their paycheck won't help that.
Pence mentioned several times how Americans need to follow common sense things like washing our hands and cleaning surfaces. How they are mostly worried about at risk groups like those over 60 or children with compromised immune systems.
I don't see any urgency to implement concrete measures to actually stop the spread in the US. No mention of measures to reduce travel from community spread areas.
Increased testing capacity is good, hopefully in a few weeks time we'll be able to test any symptomatic case but I think we need to be isolating community spread areas, with urgency, not talking about common sense practices.