"The Constitution is not a Suicide Pact". Lincoln got away with throwing out Habeas corpus during the Civil War.
California will get away with this on the grounds of an unprecedented national emergency.
Can we at least wait til the US body count reaches 3 digits before saying stuff like this?
Theoretically the most efficient approach might be to quarantine only the sick or elderly, but that’s unlikely to work well. Doing absolutely nothing would cost millions of lives. So, I really don’t see any good options only some hard choices ahead.
PS: The only state without known infections is not testing people. Exponential growth is a bitch at this point.
Median COVID-19 death age in Italy is 81.
Average life span for an Italian male is 80.
Chance of dying every year for an 85 year old American male is 10% for any and all causes. Because... well our bodies get old and frail at that age. And even then, the vast majority of them survive COVID-19.
I'm very impressed that some countries think they're above others.
Looks like your comment was posted around 3 pm Pacific on Monday. https://www.worldometers.info/ says we are at 85 deaths. Unfortunately we'll probably be at triple digits within 24 hours.