Day 5: What comes next?
Friday!
Day 5 of the official Spanish lockdown, another 5 to 6 days and I hope to see the curve flattening and some good news to help the world relax a little :). And, hopefully, the governments get a little more organized to show off financial help for labor.
I’ve been wondering, what comes after this quarantine period?
Massive testing? What is the goal?
From SK it looks like if you do massive testing then at least people know who is sick and they confine themselves to home pushing the rate of spread to lower. But, what I am not clear on is how that helps retail and restaurant businesses. They are still going to see a big impact and I struggled to find data on South Korea. SK has closed schools, stopped large gatherings, and encouraged people to work from home. News articles mention that busses and restaurants are getting busy again, which in the grand scope of things is just a temp blip versus what the EU/USA seems to be facing.
So, I guess if the EU/USA does this, they keep schools closed, stop big gatherings, but reopen retail and restaurants once they flatten the curve. And, they test everyone as much as possible and for people that are positive confine them for 14 days. Maybe then you push the R factor under 1 or 2. The end goal being 80% of normalcy, get the economy back on its feet, and then keep pushing it lower while working on a vaccine.
How do you jump start to travel again?
I am curious about what happens here. Do you have a medical card once tests are abundant to show when you were last tested negative in order to fly? What happens if your city/state clears Covid and how do you allow travel from places that have not? The EU really needs EU to EU travel as its a huge part of the economy as does the USA. How do they plan to do that?
It sounds like the idea is green/red zones. So you might have areas that are known to be safe, you restart the economy there. And, then you have red zones that could either turn into red zones and get locked down. I am curious to hear more as it is early days…
An impression of Trump and Republicans right now:
Good outline here on what comes next.
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