Getting Down to Planning the Next Year and the Interim New Normal | Talking Points Memo - 0 views
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Put simply, we won’t be able to get back to even a semi-normal social and economic life until we have a system in place that will prevent us from rapidly falling right back into a cycle of more outbreaks, lockdowns, deaths in the tens of thousands and economic shocks.
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We will need a system of mass surveillance testing to give us real time visibility into the current prevalence of the disease and keep numbers low enough to make contact tracing at a vast scale possible.
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Without this kind of data and early warning system our society will be like a plane flying in a cloud bank with all the instruments on the blink.
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