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He might just want to do it as e.g Germany does it. i.e. basically opening most smaller and some bigger businesses. shops with limited people at the same time, masks, hygiene procedures etc. schools more or less closed until end of summer.

Though Germany already has receding numbers for a while now, US is still a little behind. Total number of cases vs deaths is (if counted and reported correctly in worldometers) quite comparable (to my surprise). UK is way worse in this respect.

Difficult to say what he really wants as he does NOT communicate well in this respect. In longer interviews he is way more thoughtful.




"US is still a little behind" is a bit too understated I'd say - the US measures haven't even managed to make the number of active cases stop growing. They are shrinking in Germany since about the beginning of april.


I actually heard Germany’s infection rate has now increased directly related to their reopening (before R0 was <1 now it is ~1?)


I read that too but actually the case augmentation is not statistically significant yet (comparing d1 and d2 after the reopening is not enough). You'll have to wait until at least d4 to have a better idea and i think they can manage to wait until week two to decide to either go for herd immunity (at R0 ~ 1 this is viable, deadly but viable for healthcare workers) or lock their country for a month again.


I doubt that you can measure this already, it has only been two days (also when the lockdown started it took over a week until the effect was visible). That's why at least some countries want to take it slow, after each small step you need at least two weeks to judge the effects.




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