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Yep, for sure it can help.  I have really appreciated all the links to articles of various types, but I thought I was posting too much.  Also, it derails the purpose of these threads.  The one thread about coronavirus was good, until it was shut down! 

I did not find this to be an informed article, or at least, it didn't discuss the subject on which the author had the most information.  This is an ER doctor, not an infectious disease specialist or an epidemiologist, and his argument is based entirely on his intuition, not on science or "data" that is available anywhere but in this article.  He says his primary worry is that people aren't going for medical care for other issues. That is an issue of educating the public, which has nothing to do with "rapidly going back to work".  The "going back to work" is because he wants herd immunity, which is  a legitimate argument up to a point, but it comes with the cost of more deaths, which he doesn't talk about.  He is an ER doctor; if he had talked about the deaths he had seen in his ER, who was dying, and why he thought more of that sort of death is acceptable (it was inevitable for those people anyway?  it was their fault for being fat and out of shape?), then his argument would have more credibility.  But he didn't offer that, which is the only thing on which he does have genuine expertise.

I am happy I shared his perspective and found his opinion very informative.   Sorry it rankled you.  Off to catch the lefty now.

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