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A few extra weeks of lockdown will be less costly, financially and socially, than having to shut everything again.

It will be difficult to do a second lockdown, as many will say the first one failed so why do a second? If 30% or more of the population feels that way, a second lockdown will not be effective. People will just not comply, you can't arrest 30% of the population, and they will know it. We really don't want to mess up the progressive reopening.

I strongly agree.  There has not been any serious social unrest yet in the US (aside from isolated acts of "resistance" by churches etc.).  But I'd expect to see a lot more of that if people are free to resume their lives again and then are asked to quarantine for a second time.  I suspect most of us here would comply (it's still better than getting the virus!).  But young people, those skeptical about government overreach, etc. will be a harder sell.  And what about unemployed people who finally get to go back to work and then face losing their jobs _again_.  It would be a mess.

Let's get the number of cases way, way down and have a fantastic tracing/testing system in place before we open things up.

[burger]

A few extra weeks of lockdown will be less costly, financially and socially, than having to shut everything again.

It will be difficult to do a second lockdown, as many will say the first one failed so why do a second? If 30% or more of the population feels that way, a second lockdown will not be effective. People will just not comply, you can't arrest 30% of the population, and they will know it. We really don't want to mess up the progressive reopening.

I strongly agree.  There has not been any serious social unrest yet in the US (aside from isolated acts of "resistance" by churches etc.).  But I'd expect to see a lot more of that if people are free to resume their lives again and then are asked to quarantine for a second time.  I suspect most of us here would comply (it's still better than getting the virus!).  But young people, those skeptical about government overreach, etc. will be a harder sell.  And what about unemployed people who finally get to go back to work and then face losing their jobs _again_.  It would be a mess.

Let's get the number of cases way, way down and have a fantastic tracing/testing system in place before we open things up.