07-02-2020, 03:27 AM
As Laurie Garrett said, Biden offers (better) tactics, but no clear objectives and therefore no strategy to meet it.
My goal would be to track every case and my strategy would be awareness of where virus is to drive it out of existence. I would make my strategy about testing, contact tracing and setup quarantine venues for positive tested individuals. I would totally reject vaccine development as my solution. It’s way too expensive. The exercise takes too many people off working on other stuff, and we don’t know if one will work effectively, if we can distribute enough of it, or if enough people will take it to create herd immunity. I personally have never had a flu shot and have never had a bad case of flu. I’m not taking any Covid vaccine that I know has been rushed into production.
If you have a positive test, the government will pay for your quarantine if you can’t isolate at home. You will be required to stay for two weeks, and you’d receive a $500 tax credit for staying 3 weeks.
I’d also do what I thin it was Singapore did with its contact tracing app. Any time you enter a venue, you must check in on your phone to enter. This way if a positive case is identified, everyone who also checked in at the same place can be notified and isolate or quarantine.
I’d then do randomized population testing in every county in the country to assess where the virus is. This would be a permanent practice until the virus is gone for 3 months.
Masks would be required when around others and when inside, as long as a certain percentage of population was testing positive. After it goes below, mask requirements are dropped. All restrictions would be tied to numbers. You want us to open schools? Get our numbers to x point. Want us to open inside dining? Get us to y point.
Use the DPA to make equipment as needed to support the strategy and align all federal resources to execute. Pass another funding bill and make direct payments to individuals who have lost income. The spending that occurs will allow local governments to collect more tax dollars so they can stay afloat.
Or something like this.
My goal would be to track every case and my strategy would be awareness of where virus is to drive it out of existence. I would make my strategy about testing, contact tracing and setup quarantine venues for positive tested individuals. I would totally reject vaccine development as my solution. It’s way too expensive. The exercise takes too many people off working on other stuff, and we don’t know if one will work effectively, if we can distribute enough of it, or if enough people will take it to create herd immunity. I personally have never had a flu shot and have never had a bad case of flu. I’m not taking any Covid vaccine that I know has been rushed into production.
If you have a positive test, the government will pay for your quarantine if you can’t isolate at home. You will be required to stay for two weeks, and you’d receive a $500 tax credit for staying 3 weeks.
I’d also do what I thin it was Singapore did with its contact tracing app. Any time you enter a venue, you must check in on your phone to enter. This way if a positive case is identified, everyone who also checked in at the same place can be notified and isolate or quarantine.
I’d then do randomized population testing in every county in the country to assess where the virus is. This would be a permanent practice until the virus is gone for 3 months.
Masks would be required when around others and when inside, as long as a certain percentage of population was testing positive. After it goes below, mask requirements are dropped. All restrictions would be tied to numbers. You want us to open schools? Get our numbers to x point. Want us to open inside dining? Get us to y point.
Use the DPA to make equipment as needed to support the strategy and align all federal resources to execute. Pass another funding bill and make direct payments to individuals who have lost income. The spending that occurs will allow local governments to collect more tax dollars so they can stay afloat.
Or something like this.