re: #19 EPR-radar

Everything about a pandemic is a math and logistics problem.

You have variables:
beds, cases, time, rate of doubling, population size, ease of transmission, ICU units, surge capacity

You have to solve for being able to keep your health care system intact, which means avoiding a situation where the cases exceeds your bed/ICU/surge capacity.

Flattening the curve gives you time and space to do so. Social distancing. Canceling events, etc. all means to reduce spread.

Trump failed to flatten the curve, and it took states to do this in a haphazard manner. Trump’s the one who decided that the mayor in Jaws is the true role model, not Roy Scheider. Keep the beaches open. Ignore the problem and it will go away.

This isn’t going away.