[HN Gopher] Fauci offers candid advice to city leaders ___________________________________________________________________ Fauci offers candid advice to city leaders Author : chmaynard Score : 17 points Date : 2020-05-22 22:25 UTC (34 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (news.harvard.edu) (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. | | > "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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-05-22 23:00 UTC)