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I think it is odd that you mention China, because in many ways their response was even more heavy-handed than ours.  It is only because they were able to get the virus under control that they were able to re-open their economy.  I think that once we get over the worst of it and reduce the number of new infections into the hundreds with effective testing and tracing that we too would re-open much of our economy.

I can't tell if you're kidding or not.  Agreed, their response was more heavy handed, both in the prevention phase and in the reopening phase.

No, I wasn't kidding.  I think we agree with each other more than might appear.  I would be in favor of reopening the economy, if we could get the outbreak under control to the same extent as the Chinese did (even making allowances for their under-reporting of cases).  And while I am not advocating for the kind of heavy handedness the Chinese have shown (neither in enforcing the shutdown nor in emerging from it), I do favor an phased approach that will allow us to reopen over time.

Where I am not certain on your position is what we should do until the outbreak has been brought under control.  Perhaps you take the current shutdown as a given and are trying to focus the discussion on the aftermath.  That's not the way your posts read, however.  But if that is what you are saying, and are just advocating for an aggressive reopening (like China) after the wave passes, then as I said, our positions are not so dissimilar and what we are debating is the "how soon" and "how much".  I don't claim there are any right or wrong answers on that.

BC

[BostonCard]

I think it is odd that you mention China, because in many ways their response was even more heavy-handed than ours.  It is only because they were able to get the virus under control that they were able to re-open their economy.  I think that once we get over the worst of it and reduce the number of new infections into the hundreds with effective testing and tracing that we too would re-open much of our economy.

I can't tell if you're kidding or not.  Agreed, their response was more heavy handed, both in the prevention phase and in the reopening phase.

No, I wasn't kidding.  I think we agree with each other more than might appear.  I would be in favor of reopening the economy, if we could get the outbreak under control to the same extent as the Chinese did (even making allowances for their under-reporting of cases).  And while I am not advocating for the kind of heavy handedness the Chinese have shown (neither in enforcing the shutdown nor in emerging from it), I do favor an phased approach that will allow us to reopen over time.

Where I am not certain on your position is what we should do until the outbreak has been brought under control.  Perhaps you take the current shutdown as a given and are trying to focus the discussion on the aftermath.  That's not the way your posts read, however.  But if that is what you are saying, and are just advocating for an aggressive reopening (like China) after the wave passes, then as I said, our positions are not so dissimilar and what we are debating is the "how soon" and "how much".  I don't claim there are any right or wrong answers on that.

BC