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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seebs" data-source="post: 7942545" data-attributes="member: 61529">No one said it was. But it's the thing we can actually do, those of us who aren't researchers or epidemiologists or whatever.I think you're underestimating the degree to which social distancing is non-boolean. You can wash your hands more often for ten years, no big deal, and even that helps reduce the death rate.I think we may be talking past each other.Yes, general quarantine and lockdown practices are, in fact, a good solution... But the reason that SK's handling is working is, in part, massively different starting assumptions and environment. That works great if you can start it right away, but once you've missed the window for it, you've missed it, and we missed it, here in the US. So we do have a pandemic. We are not making the pandemic go away short of vaccines or herd immunity. It's too widespread.No one is suggesting it as a solution, they're suggesting it as a course of action that is available to everyone.Researchers are still gonna work on vaccines and things. All I can usefully do is minimize social contact myself, quarantine if there's anything suggesting I might have the thing, and advocate for those courses of action for other people.</blockquote>