in a nutshell Archived Message Posted by dan on April 30, 2020, 6:43 am, in reply to "Oh, God... Not Erickson again..." "Erickson starts out by describing how the focus on COVID-19 means that a lot of people with other medical problems, such as heart attacks and the like, are afraid to come to the hospital (or their urgent care clinics) and may be dying at home or recovering without treatment that might have minimized the damage. This is true. Erickson also notes that we should quarantine the sick and not the people who are well, which is, of course, the way we will eventually have to remove the restrictions, while dismissing the current approach of in essence “quarantining” everyone with shelter-in-place orders as overkill. The problem is that to be able to quarantine the sick and allow the well to go about their business with lesser restrictions, we need accurate testing, a lot more accurate testing. Absent a lot of testing, and the robust ability to trace the contacts of those identified as having COVID-19, the only option was the one that most nations and most states in the US chose: Shelter-in-place orders of varying strictness. While Erickson is correct that a more targeted approach to quarantine is desirable, he barely mentions what is needed to achieve that." Message Thread: WATCH: “Dr Erickson Covid19 Briefing” CENSORED by YouTube - rippon April 29, 2020, 7:45 am Re: WATCH: “Dr Erickson Covid19 Briefing” CENSORED by YouTube - AlanG April 29, 2020, 10:33 am Back on YouTube (for now) - AlanG April 29, 2020, 10:58 am Re: Back on YouTube (for now) - brooks April 29, 2020, 11:47 am Use the Off-G link, it seems to be ad-free - AlanG April 29, 2020, 1:18 pm Re: Use the Off-G link, it seems to be ad-free - brooks April 29, 2020, 2:18 pm Anyone who maintains that this is just the flu has no idea what they are talking about. - dan April 29, 2020, 2:31 pm Oh, God... Not Erickson again... - Mark Doran April 29, 2020, 10:07 pm Thanks Mark, that was excellent. Answered some questions that had occurred to me and others tha. nm - brooks April 29, 2020, 11:06 pm whoops! "...others that hadn't." nm - brooks April 29, 2020, 11:07 pm in a nutshell - dan April 30, 2020, 6:43 am   Searching