Originally Posted by Moop

Yes, I would prefer a whole shutdown. I personally think that a total shutdown is inevitable at some point (the growth has always been and is still exponential with an average of 31% increase per day, which means it doubles every 2.6 days, gets 10x worse every 8.5 days, 100x worse every 17 days etc) and I don't see the point in putting it off. China, Japan and South Korea had great success with it. I understand that culturally it would be far harder to enforce a total shutdown in western countries, but I think we are approaching desperate times. It seems the government is waiting until the situation has got sufficiently bad that the population is willing to isolate themselves voluntarily.

I'm considering not going into work tomorrow. I am a teacher and I had a look on our system today - turns out most of the children of doctors in the school have been pulled out. Lots of the other children who've been pulled are kids of scientists. I don't really trust the government's judgement on any of this, they didn't get where they are by studying science.