It's hard to assign the risk surgically and to keep everyone separated. I mean, you could try that. The benefit would be some people would be getting compensated. I suspect the overall net effect, especially given that we have large numbers of people walking the disease around at this moment, is the death rate wouldn't change. You'd just be swapping out a lower percentage of those in the high risk category for a larger percentage of those in the low risk category (basically Law of Large Numbers). It's what we've been seeing in Florida and Texas for 2+ months - lots of new cases, the death toll mounting at a steady rate.
Your idea strikes me as more of a transitional plan for a nation that's gotten its numbers below a certain threshold. So, I'd take it as better than nothing, but in a nation with lots of corona running around the general population, I don't think it will move the needle.
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Wonderful Monds (09-16-2020)
M2 (09-16-2020)
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M2 (09-16-2020)
Because it would have to be more than just staying at home (which is hard enough, by itself).
COVID is easily transmitted, especially indoors. So no visitors for granny either.
So your question is really, "why can't we just pay Granny to stay inside her home and never have visitors, except maybe on the front driveway, 6 feet apart, no touching?"
And honestly, that question doesn't even merit a response.
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Looks like they're fighting over whether it's $2.2 trillion or $1.5 trillion, so of course the logical thing is for there to be $0 instead.
Rojo (09-17-2020)
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I mean 14.6% U6. What could go wrong?
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