[rolltiide]

the medium term plan is more capacity and equipment at hospitals

the short term plan alone will flatten the curve too much, if successful, and we simply dont have confirmations about whether we build immunity or the virus dies out, so without those features the short term plan being the long term plan or a recurring plan (even if we build immunity but we flattened too much, then clusters reemerge). But in conjunction with the medium term plan and most people not being reinfected its the best solution

long term plan either way is a vaccine, effective treatment

edit: can you engineers please tell me and the world what some of you disagree with about this information? this isn't the place to write a dissertation on every edge case necessary to explain whats going on, and the lack of that dissertation doesn't undermine the point or utility of what is written

[ocschwar]

Germany is already starting to administer antibody titers. We will know pretty damned soon how many of us have obtained immunity to the virus.

[adrr]

The people with immunity will be a critical asset. They can work grocery stores and delivery services.

[rolltiide]

That's great but every day of not implementing the short term plan exponentially rises the strain on the hospital system.

Nothing I said refutes the soon-ness of information coming from all around the world, its still not here though.