# The media is driving our defensive actions not science! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [April 8, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-media-is-driving-our-defensive-actions-not-science/851355 "2020-04-08T16:41:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 92
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-media-is-driving-our-defensive-actions-not-science/851355/92 "2020-04-11T23:18:13Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > If you identify the people you are agreeing with and let us see the exact proposals perhaps we can have that discussion. How difficult is it to give us that? I can’t identify the people I agree with because I don’t pay any attention to who they are. Just reading I come across throughout the day. So Lets just say I have no cites. I can give you proposals, Areas of the country that seem to be under the least pressure relax the safe guards while continuing to closely monitor. Stopping infections is never the goal. All those considered high risk the government should assist however they can in making sure they can safely isolate themselves. Other areas of the country under moderate pressure stick with social distancing and avoidance of large gatherings. If that doesn’t work tighten up some more. One of the biggest things is testing of the general population so we can know more closely what are actual risk factors are per age and physical condition. This has been badly manipulated by the news to scare everyone. My goal would be to achieve herd immunity as fast as possible while still trying to keep the hospitals from being too badly over loaded, medical supply inventories should be closely monitored so they can be moved from place to place as needed. I am quite sure this could be refined considerably as my job has always been fixing trucks. But something to this effect. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-media-is-driving-our-defensive-actions-not-science/851355)._