Coronavirus Advice From Abroad: 7 Lessons America’s Governors Should Not Ignore as They Reopen Their Economies
We spoke to frontline experts from around the globe and have compiled a list of recommendations for reopening U.S. states.
Their consensus?
It’s tough to find policies that
simultaneously save lives and livelihoods.
While they differ on the details, their views formed a startlingly united consensus of what’s needed:
Massive, ongoing testing to detect where the disease is spreading,
a real-time ability to trace contacts of those infected and isolate them,
a willingness of people to wear masks in crowded public spaces,
reserves of personal protective equipment (PPE) and other equipment for hospital workers to handle any surge in cases,
reliable, easily administered blood tests to find out the number of people who have been infected. If they work well, such tests could eventually be used to identify people with immunity who could work at higher-risk jobs.
We also asked American experts
whether states can meet all or most of these benchmarks.
Their answers coalesced around a single point:
None of you (the states) are close to being ready.
https://www.propublica.org/article/coronavirus-advice-from-abroad-7-lessons-americas-governors-should-not-ignore-as-they-reopen-their-economies
The Capitalists, the oligarchy, see NO VALUE in human life, so will push the states HARD to get people back to work and THEIR own wealth back top shape, to pocketing, hoarding 95% of all gains in national wealth.
100Ks more diseased?
10Ks more dead"
The Capitalists, the oligarchy, DON'T ING CARE,
like they already don't ing care about 100Ks of Americans who have committed "suicides of despair" from neoliberalism and austerity imposed on the by the oligarchy.