redline248 said:
I'm curious what is the opinion of medical professionals in regards to continuing shelter in place here in Texas. Posters on other texags boards are quite insistent it's massive overreaction.
Not a medical professional, but it appears from all I have heard that we may have flattened the curve. Our hospitals have plenty of capacity because of we stopped all elective surgeries. This has caused a completely different problem than in places like NY. Instead of overwhelming our healthcare system, we have furloughed our healthcare workers.
Additionally, economic dislocation has its own risks, including increase suicides, domestic violence, alcoholism.
However, there is still a lot unknown. So a phased rollback of restrictions makes a lot of sense. We do not want to go too far too fast and end up overwhelming our healthcare system.
So far, we have:
-Allowing curbside to go from "non-essential" businesses makes a lot of sense. It has been allowed in other states and there is no reason to expect it is safer to get takeout food than to get takeout other goods.
-opening state parks. There is no reason to expect a state park is more dangerous than a city park or the sidewalk, if you maintain appropriate precautions.
-expand the definition of allowable surgeries. We have the hospital capacity to space.
All this presumes that we are near a peak and not on the verge of spiking.