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Infectious disease expert Michael Osterholm warned that the states starting to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic will pay a big price later on.
Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told CNNs Jake Tapper on Thursday that states like Georgia, Colorado and others that are easing social distancing restrictions were putting gasoline on fire.
I think right now, this is one of the things weve learned, if were going to learn to live with this, then you just dont walk in the face of it and spit in its eye, because it will hit you, said Osterholm.
And I think that thats a really important issue right now, he continued. When we have transmission increasing, when our hospitals are not able to take care of it and we dont have enough testing to even know whats going on, then thats not the time to loosen up.
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/infectious-disease-expert-warning-states-coronavirus-112251595.html
Ilsa
(61,721 posts)Alot of people in my state are not listening to the governor. Plenty of people are ignoring his declaration to open the state.
sop
(10,306 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,509 posts)Voltaire2
(13,293 posts)We will ease up. We will do little to prepare. Those smart enough and privileged will stay the fuck home and avoid the disaster.
Midnight Writer
(21,886 posts)Followed by footage of smiling people getting haircuts, women in salons, people walking into restaurants.