[FRIAM] Covid and Politics

[Marcus Daniels]

Here is a literature review..

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20065771v1.full.pdf


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On May 28, 2020, at 8:05 AM, Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:



Marcus wrote:

What if it is like the cold?

I assume you mean by this, "what if there is only limited residual immunity?"

cody  wrote:

I had what I think is a great idea for herd immunity. What if the government were to open overnight summer camps, and even pay for every kid to spend 1 month canoeing, camping, and most importantly catching covid. This way they could gain a herd immunity so that school could safely open in September.

And issue t-shirts that say:  "I survived COVID19 Camp 2020!" and maybe a tattoo in a visible location?  (I'm wondering if recently back to work tattoo artists are beginning to fulfill tattoo commissions on a COVID19 theme?)

Yours was my first instinct when the college crowd was passing it around at Spring Break early in the curve....   keep the beach-towns open and provide lots of free/inexpensive services to those who commit to staying in place and going through their infection cycle in-place.   At the time, it looked like that demographic was not particularly prone to strong symptoms requiring hospitalization.   They could all nurse one another through like they do for hangovers... a 2 week hangover I guess... and then as they demonstrate that they've been through the full cycle and are (very likely) no longer infectious then they can return to their communities with an obligation to pick up the high-risk-of-infection tasks that other more vulnerable people should/might not.

Huge number of unvalidated assumptions here of course!

My dystopian version of your (Cody) idea would align with deep-state conspiracy theorists who might liken this to the kinds of Nazi "brown-shirt" exercises back in the day, enlisting children to (sometimes) turn their parents/family in for questionable behaviour/talk/associations.   A month of "programming and propoganda into a neofascist liberal agenda!!!!!!".     Although at this point, it is *more* likely that Red State/Red Hatters would be the ones to send *their* kids to Christian COVID Camp with all of the same features my dystopian view suggests but with a couple of bits flipped.   I can now see pitched canoe battles in the middle of the lake between the red-team and blue-team camps... it might help with mixing the COVID strains (tongue-in-cheek) that might be evolving in these two otherwise mutually isolating populations.

bumble,

 - Steve


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