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Testing makes it possible to isolate the people that need to be isolated. The reason we are being locked down is that we don't know who is carrying the virus and who isn't.

Ok, I'll bite. What does MOAB stand for? Google just brings up a bunch of pages about a city in Utah.

All true... but when you're young, and you've not lived through hard times, and it looks like the world is going crazy around you, it's easy to succumb to panic. I don't envy him. Me, most of my assets are liquid, the only thing I own that is tied to the market is my 401K and at this point I...

I really, really think you're thinking catastrophically. What basis do you have for saying that? This is NOT an ordinary garden-variety bug, and so far, no one has been ordered to isolate themselves to avoid the flu or anything else. This is (so far) a once in a century crisis. That could change...

But you can't. At least, not by mandate, not in this country. Enough will refuse to comply that the health system will still be strained. The best solution is as I said, to make testing available on the scale it needs to be, at whatever cost necessary, THEN once most of the infected are...

Certainly there will be more scares like this. But how often do they happen? The last one happened 102 years ago. I think it's too soon to say it's the end of society as we know it.

And THIS is exactly what the powers that be are trying to avoid... you can say better to go full herd immunity and let the vulnerable die, but society won't stand for it so it's not going to happen.

If you're not scared, you're not scared, and that's okay too. Maybe better than okay. But the truth is, you're not likely to be exposed to (most of) the thousands of others. You ARE likely to be exposed to this one.

Or we could shut down society and avoid the devastating epidemic. That's the way we're headed now. But the crash, I fear, is inevitable. I have a student who says he can't focus on school because he's a graduating senior and sees the economy falling apart all around him. I wish I had words of...

See my other post. The death rate deserves aggressive action, but we're so far behind the power curve that our choices are either a devastating epidemic or an economic crash.

He makes some good points. But it would require truly isolating the at-risk folks and keeping them not only out of the workforce, but also out of society for a long time. That's a non-starter, as intelligent an idea as it sounds. Not legal unless it's voluntary, and if voluntary, not going to...

Yes... but if some of them end up red 6 or 8 months from now instead of in 2 weeks, then the health system might be able to handle the infections. And 6 or 8 months from now we might have an effective treatment.

That's quite a dilemma Nate. I'd hate to be immunosuppressed at a time like this, but if it doesn't matter as far as COVID-19 is concerned, then... Sounds like something you want to think long and hard about. It sounds like the biopsy came back confirming the dx? Maybe I missed that post...

Used to be called Darwin In Action...

Maybe... but it seems to me it happened simultaneously all over the country, too quickly to be explained by people seeing the results of other people's panic, even on social media. Maybe I just didn't notice it until the craze was well under way.

Correct. I'm in the under 100k crowd, but I certainly don't live paycheck to paycheck.

Of course, I understand herd / lemming behavior. I was wondering how so many people got the same idea across the entire country. Most of them didn't see the result of the first person's panic, but the first ones in their region had the same idea, at nearly the same time. Can't be independent...

Probably Vermont, given that New York is right next door...

That scenario explains how a wave of panic buying gets sustained, but how does it start? And I mean, for items for which there is no logical reason to expect a shortage. Take toilet paper, for example, as you mentioned... I can see one or two people getting this hare-brained idea that there is...