What should be the guideline for when a state should open up its economy?

[kentuck]

When there are zero cases of the virus in their state?

Or a time period, perhaps two weeks, after the last case appears?

Or when the cases are down to single digits?

That seems to be the question?

Almost everyone would like to see the country open up. They would like to go to the movies, or to a restaurant, or shopping, or numerous other activities. They are impatient.

Also, there are a percentage of people that live paycheck to paycheck. How are they supposed to survive? Their job is essential to them. They cannot continue to stay at home.

What do we do about those folks?

Nobody wants to die in a pandemic.

[patricia92243]

1. Perhaps go county by county instead of the whole state. Then

it would make more sense for zero cases to be the criteria. Then they might still use a little caution and slowly open thing up.

[uponit7771]

6. +1, the percentage and amounts should be localized to county like the USDA does. This isn't

... rocket sciences its Trump not wanting the numbers to go up.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. issue with counting cases right now is insufficient testing

until we have widespread testing, since many with it have no symptoms, we don't have an adequate handle in occurrences, so making wise decisions are not yet possible.

[kentuck]

3. Good point.

Perhaps they could test everyone that wishes to return to work? They could require employers to be responsible for their safety and healthcare.

[Lochloosa]

4. A truly National Response to the virus. Testing everyone. Contact tracing. A vaccine.

Nothing short of that.

[uponit7771]

5. +1, Birx was vague about falling case number ***AMOUNTS***. If the case numbers fall by .01 a day

... but are still at 10,000 a day in an area at the end of 6 weeks then that doesn't sound good at all.

[House of Roberts]

7. What should be the guideline , after reopening,

for shutting back down and admitting you were wrong? If you can't answer this question, you aren't ready to reopen.

[Ace Rothstein]

8. It will be impossible to wait until there are no cases or single digit cases.

It isn't sustainable to have large chunks of the economy shut down long term.