6/n So hire a million public health workers. People who can't work at their restaurant/bar jobs. College students who can't get summer internships. All the people struggling to find decent employment could have a job that pays well and feels meaningful.
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1/n Ask yourself...what would FDR do? He would hire a million workers and train them for contact tracing, sanitation, and other public health tasks. Kill two birds with one stone: create jobs and contain the virus.
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2/n He would call it the Wuhan Progress Administration (WPA) because such language is bipartisan 🙃 Cost would be a small fraction of the trillion dollar stimulus package.
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3/n We could stop listening to pundits telling us that containment is no longer possible. A million public health workers would take care of it.
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4/n Many people have come to the conclusion that lockdown is necessary. But don't be naive and think that some weeks/months of lockdown will solve our problem. Lockdown is only the first step...it gives us time to implement containment.
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5/n The Imperial College report argues that mitigation w/o containment will fail, because lifting the restrictions w/o containment will lead to another outbreak.
We can now read the Imperial College report on COVID-19 that led to the extreme measures we've seen in the US this week. Read it; it's terrifying. I'll offer a summary in this thread; please correct me if I've gotten it wrong.
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7/n All you need is mobile phone and internet. Work from home. Call the patient. Call the contacts. Call in the sanitation team.
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8/n NYC had 1351 new cases today. Every one of them needs contact tracing.
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9/n There is no way out. We have no choice but to adopt and implement containment. Unless we capitulate and let the epidemics run their course. Please no more defeatist talk that containment is no longer possible. /end
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