Simple 3 Step Strategy to Stop the Coronavirus in the United States

Coronavirus Model, made of Brain Flakes® Discs

Step 1, make the following changes right now:

• Total shutdown of all non-essential businesses for 3–4 weeks in the entire United States.
• Essential business-workers (anyone outside the home) must wear masks.
• Test all foreign visitors at the airport. If test is not reliable, require all foreign visitors to self-isolate for three weeks.
• Fine or imprison anyone who disobeys.

Concurrently build the supply chain for masks, PPE, ventilators, and rapid testing.

Step 2, while loosening national self-isolation restrictions, establish testing checkpoints all over the country in locations with significant traffic.

• If you want to go to the grocery store, you need to get tested for COVID-19. If you want to go to the mall, expect to get tested there.
• Encourage people to wear masks whenever they are out.

Anyone who tests positive must self-isolate for 3 weeks. Again, if you disobey you are fined or go to prison.

As soon as the number of positive tests in a location gets too high (metric can be infections per local hospital beds), return to step 1, but keep it local. Increase rate of testing in surrounding areas.

If the situation continues to deteriorate, apply step 1 over a wider and wider area, as large as the entire United States again if necessary.

If at any point, there is legitimate evidence of reinfection or mutation of the virus, reconsider totally the strategy. If reinfection is proven impossible, recovered patients can receive an ID, which will allow them to avoid testing and other hassles.

Step 3, if no reinfection or mutation, continue the strategy until one of the following is achieved:

1. Treatment that makes the virus less deadly
2. Vaccine
3. Herd immunity

Then reconsider again.

That takes care of the health problem. The economy will come back. The people who die, we lose forever.