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Based on our county leadership's own data and their forecast model, they should have immediately built the field hospital as soon as FEMA agreed to pay for it and then begun re-opening our economy. All the extreme social distancing measures do is delay the spread of the disease, i.e. "flattening the curve." They do not reduce the numbers of people who will ultimately become infected or how many will require hospitalization or the number of fatalities. If there is no risk of exceeding the capacity of our healthcare system, there is no justification for the incredible economic damage being done, both to our economy as a whole and to so many of our individual citizens and families. Our officials say they are making decisions based on data and science, but they obviously are not. Economics is also a science; politics are not.
Based on our county leadership's own data and their forecast model, they should have immediately built the field hospital as soon as FEMA agreed to pay for it and then begun re-opening our economy. All the extreme social distancing measures do is delay the spread of the disease, i.e. "flattening the curve." They do not reduce the numbers of people who will ultimately become infected or how many will require hospitalization or the number of fatalities. If there is no risk of exceeding the capacity of our healthcare system, there is no justification for the incredible economic damage being done, both to our economy as a whole and to so many of our individual citizens and families. Our officials say they are making decisions based on data and science, but they obviously are not. Economics is also a science; politics are not.