The Coronavirus

[Bob Butler 54]

(05-26-2020, 06:03 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(05-26-2020, 04:32 PM)Mikebert Wrote: Are you talking about Massachusetts only?

Yes.  If your 75% reduction was for your whole "hot zone", I'll trust you on that, though I think that's dominated by New York.

I think Illinois is different because cases are actually increasing there; Chicago might be on its way to becoming another New York, perhaps in slow motion.

I do think that R hovering so close to 1.0 in so many states seems strange.  How can it be so easy to cut it down from, say, 2 or 3 to 0.9, but then so difficult to cut it from 0.9 to 0.5 or something?

I suspect it is the people's attitudes.  It is bad to overload the health system,  but if the health system is ok then let us party. A lot of people will do just barely enough.  This is an understandable attitude, but it doesn't put the virus in the rear view mirror. It doesn't result in a fully open economy.