Dear Jeff Bezos, instead of firing me, protect your workers from coronavirus

Oddly in the UK we are getting all our groceries delivered and left on the doorstep. In New Zealand they have been stopped from having groceries delivered in case people touch them and told to go get them from the store themselves. I wonder who is right.

There are going to be many excellent comparative epidemiology studies when this is over, comparing the approaches of different countries and what worked and what didn't.

I doubt there is any right/wrong answer here.

If one delivery guy gets it and is busy driving around neighborhoods asymptomatic for weeks the delivery would cause spread. If one grocer gets it and is busy running his store asymptomatic for weeks then many who visits could get it. So its just luck.

The goal with these measures is to buy time for hospitals. And they both will.

The social distancing stuff makes sure flow to the hospital is not as high as it would be if everyone was not social distancing. What matters at the end of the day is how many free beds are at the hospital and what plans they have to handle overflow. Korean hospitals had plans on how to coordinate with each other and between regions for docs/equipment etc to handle overflow/overload.

Honestly, if we all survive this, the new knowledge base we're about to have is going to be astounding. So that's one good thing, I guess.