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We Pulse-Wide-Modulate a case rate that is just soo below what the strained public health system can take, prioritize the most important economic systems slowly back to life and hope that the vaccazines come just in time to end this nightmare.

After that reforms. Lots of them.

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Fortunately, as time goes on we'll improve our ICU capacity and it's likely that some anti-viral treatments will turn out to be effective, which should diminish the ICU load.

We could within half a year-- given massive impact from deaths and shutdowns encouraging bypassing some amount of protocol-- have clonal antibody treatments that prevent hospitalization in a large portion of infections.

> as time goes on we'll improve our ICU capacity

This seems unlikely. On what timescale do you think this will happen?

Prioritize ‘the most important economic systems’ is very subjective, unfortunately.

Who decides the ‘winners’, as grotesque as that sounds?

I don't know, maybe the bits that keep the population fed and the lights on. That seems a start.

Ok, so restaurant supply companies, like Sysco, or the Krogers, Publix, etc.?

Linemen for powerline infrastructure, HVAC and telecom techs to maintain the cell towers?

Truck drivers to deliver chemicals needed for both water and waste-water treatment? Also, transporting the sludge afterwards?

Garbage pickup?

Doctors,nurses, police, firefighters, 911 dispatchers?

What am I not thinking of?

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