[HN Gopher] Fauci offers candid advice to city leaders
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       Fauci offers candid advice to city leaders
        
       Author : chmaynard
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2020-05-22 22:25 UTC (34 minutes ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (news.harvard.edu)
        
       | threatofrain wrote:
       | > But minority groups, particularly African Americans, who live
       | in the inner city are extremely vulnerable, "on a scale of a
       | nursing home or a prison or a meat-packing plant" in terms of
       | risk and how devastating an outbreak can be, Fauci said.
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       | > "We are really almost morally obligated on our part to
       | concentrate the resources in those communities so that they can
       | do the adequate testing, and then, when someone gets infected,
       | identification, isolation and contact tracing, and provide them
       | with the resources to be able to physically separate when they do
       | get an infected individual," he said.
       | 
       | Unfortunately this has become a political issue, and the American
       | president has already stated that much of the economic damage is
       | self-inflicted by "blue" states, and that it would be unfair to
       | provide more stimulus checks when it would primarily help blue
       | states.
        
         | nickff wrote:
         | If we ignore the party politics of these decisions, and think
         | about it from an abstract/philosophical point of view, should
         | how much prosperity to trade for safety be a state-by-state
         | decision? Given that states have the police power, should they
         | be fully accountable for the consequences of their decisions,
         | or should the federal government provide some sort of state-to-
         | state redistribution? I think these questions go to the core of
         | federalism.
         | 
         | More to the point of the article, I find Fauci's appreciation
         | of non-sickness issues to be refreshing and helpful. Most
         | doctors are so focused on the disease itself that they don't
         | seem to take 'collateral damage' from containment into account.
        
           | 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 wrote:
           | We're already seeing a huge disparity between states, with
           | strong enforcement of social distancing NOT correlating with
           | a reduced death rate.
           | 
           | By leaving it up to the states, we're creating a distributed
           | system where there can be failure without bringing down the
           | whole country.
        
         | sjg007 wrote:
         | Nonsense, this is the Feds abdicating their responsibilities.
        
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