Ask HN: Why not just quarantine old people and risk groups?
I am curious to hear your Corona solutions? My suggestions:
1: Only quarantine old people and risk groups (>65y or pre-conditions of lung/heart). They get free delivery everything.
2: Let others work and spend money, as long as they are not in crowds.
3: World War II style industry mobilisation: Government buys x% of hotel bedrooms and turns them into war hospitals. Increase capacity of life-saving things by factor 100 (eg ventilators, masks).
Meantime:
- Test 1000 random people per region, weekly, to get true death rate
- Don't forget negative consequences on health/additional deaths from increased poverty, if economy is hit too hard
1: Only quarantine old people and risk groups (>65y or pre-conditions of lung/heart). They get free delivery everything.
2: Let others work and spend money, as long as they are not in crowds.
3: World War II style industry mobilisation: Government buys x% of hotel bedrooms and turns them into war hospitals. Increase capacity of life-saving things by factor 100 (eg ventilators, masks).
Meantime: - Test 1000 random people per region, weekly, to get true death rate - Don't forget negative consequences on health/additional deaths from increased poverty, if economy is hit too hard