Sam Lowry said:
ATL Bear said:
Sam Lowry said:
ATL Bear said:
Sam Lowry said:
It's not my burden to guesstimate. The model assumes certain policies are in place (including stay-at-home orders, BTW). Those policies were not in place. If you think for some reason the best-case scenario should still apply, that's on you to prove with more than just speculation.
Stay at home in the model was for infected and immediate family. Social distancing was not a universal stay at home, close businesses, schools, etc. It was a reduction in contacts outside of school and work. I posted the exact measures from the model earlier. Any practical review of them shows they were all applied and done so multiple times with case triggers. I have specifically stuck with the UK as the model did.
Your burden is your claim that a) the measures weren't utilized when they were and b) they weren't used as the model forecasted (your guesstimate) when in fact they were in addition to other measures.
Your statement in bold is sufficient to support my claim. The model assumes that most of the measures are in place continuously. If they were all applied multiple times with case triggers, then they were not in place continuously and not used as projected by the model.
The model specifically forecast it with various triggers, not as a continuous application. In fact it even analyzed how long you waited to activate the policy after the trigger. The only recommendations that were assumed consistent was the stay at home when infected (at a 70% compliance) and immediate family members quarantine (50% compliance). Everything else was driven by case triggers and finite time windows (on/off).
RE your other reply, the school closings were a separate variable from the social distancing one.
So we agree that case isolation and home quarantine are assumed to be continuous for up to two years. Also note that "if intensive NPI packages aimed at suppression are not maintained, our analysis suggests that transmission will rapidly rebound, potentially producing an epidemic comparable in scale to what would have been seen had no interventions been adopted."
Yes, we agree on that. The problem is that even if you took the highest R factor, highest trigger point (most icu cases before policy reinstatement), longest off trigger periods before restart, and lowest compliance, the model predicted around 40,000 - 50,000 deaths over 2 years. They hit 130,000 in Year 1 using all of the recommendations plus more. UK schools were only open for about 3 months that entire first year, and they enforced some hard core social distancing policies (see rule of six as one example).