Many here are still talking about isolation? Meanwhile, everyone else in the world is moving on and talking about their failing economies and the need to get back to work. America is announcing today their plans to re-open its economy. State governments and their governors have been announcing similar plans. People here are stuck on keeping everything shut down. Hey, fellers. The train has left the station. Do you have anything to contribute to the future?
Countries or regions of countries that are reopening arefurther along in the crisis, and their infection rate went down after 1 and a half or 2 months. Other countries were hit later on, or will still be hit. Austria and Denmark are slowly reopening because their 7 day moving average is coming down, for example. New York seems to have passed the worst phase of this 1st wave, but other american cities are not there yet.
A governmentt can announce a plan for reopening, but it will be implemented carefully in phases, and will take months. Until a vaccine is in place, or antivirals available, such reopening needs to be closely monitored and phased, and with many social distancing. Older and more sick-prone people will have to be maintained in isolation for months. Assoon as you reopen, infection rate will go up again, and this needs to balanced with economic measures.
This is not a matter of "health" or "economy" - we can have both, but clearly in this first wave of the infection, health needed to prevail. Youcan't have economy without people.
