Why not commandeer hotels/motels? They're all empty because of travel bans.

[Yavin4]

So, why not convert them to make shift hospitals. Send in the National Guard to sanitize them. Or even use the cruise ships. Thye're idle.

[flibbitygiblets]

1. That's happening in CA (link below)

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-12/california-governor-gavin-newsom-hotels-medical-facilities-patients-meeting-requirements

[StarryNite]

2. Yes, it sure is preferred over laying in a parking lot for us older people!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Really? Why exactly do you think

they'd make good make shift hospitals?

Really?

Think this through.

[GReedDiamond]

6. They're not "hospitals"...they are to quarantine people who test positive...

...not all who are virus positive are going to need medical treatment, but they are still transmitters of the virus.

So they need to be isolated. Perhaps some under guard - especially the ones who are asymptomatic - to keep them isolated.

That's what I came up with when I thought it through.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. The OP referenced hospitals.

Here's another question. How do you know that someone who is asymptomatic is actually spreading this disease?

[GReedDiamond]

11. If they test positive, but are not exhibiting symptoms, they...

...can still spread the virus.

I think it has been established that it can take up to 14 days for someone exposed to start having symptoms, whether they be mild or severe.

So people that are mildly symptomatic and think they have Rush Limbaugh's cold will still mingle with everyone else and pass it on.

But the ultimate answer to your question is, we will never know until we have massive, accurate testing available everywhere.

[MarcA]

12. So take people from their homes and quarantine them under guard.

This from a "liberal" site. Maybe there are still some abandoned buildings
at Manzanar.

[GReedDiamond]

14. OK, you got me! I'm a Trumphumpin' fascist...

...EXCEPT

this has nothing to do with WWII.

My girlfriend is Japanese, and I have a friend whose family members were in the manzanar camps.

This has to do with what is necessary to FLATTEN THE CURVE.

If that makes me a "fascist," so be it.

And I'm not too thrilled about being on lockdown myself, so please take your sanctimony and...do whatever you want with it.

But, stay safe.

ON EDIT: There has already been a case of a coronavirus positive yokel - in Kentucky if I recall correctly? - who had to have a cop posted outside his house so he wouldn't go out and infect people because "freedumb" or something.

[MarcA]

15. No, it's not "sanctimony". It's critical thinking.

People tested and Confirmed positive should be in quarantine like those with any other
communicable disease. You stated that you approve of putting people in mass confinement
areas, which is Exactly the attitude that was shown in WWII to people who tested positive
for being Japanese Americans and is but one example of the misguided and authoritarian
control of the "other". Enjoy Your lockdown.

[GReedDiamond]

16. OK you got me again. I really enjoy the lockdown...

...I admit that I'm a Trump-troll fascist nazi asshole.

You win.

BTW: There are all sorts of people (such as HOMELESS in California) who may need shelter during a pandemic, and who may be covid-19 positive. Think it through.

Also, I'm done with you, you are now the only person on DU that I have put on ignore.

[roamer65]

4. First hotels to commandeer: TRUMP HOTELS.

[meadowlander]

7. He'll charge the government $600 a night per room.

[roamer65]

10. Eminent domain.

Take them by force if necessary.

[BigmanPigman]

5. Gov Newsom of CA already did this last week.

Smart move!

[KentuckyWoman]

9. Bet they are out of TP too.

The employees have surely carted it home by now.

[dawg day]

13. Cuomo mentioned that as something they were considering

Motels too. Great idea. Keep the people who are sick but not too sick to take up a hospital bed.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

17. Who is going to staff and clean them?

A lot of the cleaners in hotels and motels do a completely crap job of cleaning.

How are meals going to be handled? All the laundry that will need to be done?

A little more thought might be needed here.