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Old 08-25-2020, 01:38 PM   #11
Tyrone Slothrop
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Re: Team Eradication 1, Team Herd Immunity Nil

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield View Post
We were never going to be able to contact trace adequately in a country this large. China was only able to do it because it's authoritarian and could control its population within the cities where the virus appeared.
Size of the country has nothing to do with it (and, indeed, China is actually larger than the US). Contact tracing becomes impossible when too many people get sick, and if you don't have good testing. The federal government prefers denial.
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