LA extending lock down 3 months
Los Angeles County's stay-at-home orders will 'with all certainty' be extended for the next three months, Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said.
www.latimes.com
To be fair, they're in trouble.
The US is not China or South Korea. So we are going to get people moving from area to area quite frequently without some sort of restriction. Freedom and all that.
You've got the Northeast which has gone through possibly the worst of it. LA County has NOT seen the worst of it. 10M people. What's that? 200K cases if they go the NYC way??? Maybe more. I can't see them doing a better job of not-congregating versus NYC.
I'd be VERY worried if I was in LA. Our So-Cal in general. It probably has the most chance of getting massively out of hand.
Now, is a July lockdown going to work? I have no idea. But I can see why they are very very nervous.
Herd immunity is the only realistic option—the question is how to get there safely.
www.foreignaffairs.com
But they eschewed harsh controls, fines, and policing. Swedes have changed their behavior, but not as profoundly as the citizens of other Western democracies.
Sweden is very very very cooperative. We would call it communist, but they aren't. I guess being stuck in the dark together for 2 months out of the year changes a society. All for one and one for all. So voluntary measures from politicians they trust are just. . . well, followed.
What they have won't work here. Because we've got people who think that some woman who says she discovered HIV a decade after it was discovered is smarter than the people she YouTubes against it. Too much conspiracy theories here for a Sweden model to work.
To be honest - there is too much lack-of-cooperation for the Sweden model to work just about ANYWHERE. It works very very well. . . for Sweden. That's it.
Oh yeah - and Sweden, on purpose or by accident, sacrificed it's oldest members to get to herd immunity. I'm not sure we are willing to do that here in the US.