Timeline for Suggestions for reducing the transmission rate?
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| Mar 27, 2020 at 5:42 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by S. Carnahan♦ | ||
| Mar 26, 2020 at 12:56 | comment | added | fedja | Dear Gil, I tried to bring your idea about cars to its logical extreme. See if it makes sense. | |
| Mar 25, 2020 at 19:57 | comment | added | Gil Kalai | Dear fedja, this may mean that not allowing (non essential) people to use cars is essential. (In some cases public transformation is stopped but there is no limitation on private cars.) | |
| Mar 25, 2020 at 16:22 | comment | added | fedja | The time splitting is also better because we have no guarantee that each particular block $C_i$ has a smaller largest eigenvalue than the whole matrix, and every geographical block is infected by now. That would be "the" solution, if only it were feasible... Thanks for the response, BTW :-) | |
| Mar 25, 2020 at 16:16 | comment | added | fedja | Moreover, the time splitting may work no matter what the actual dynamics is. Misha Sodin told me that the Israeli army is already doing something like that, apparently, letting people in group $C_i$ out to do the work on day $i$ and educating the rest how to run necessary services when they are locked in (if I understood him right). In principle, this model can be applied to the whole population. | |
| Mar 25, 2020 at 16:08 | comment | added | fedja | You can also separate in time and turn the blocks on and off one after another. If you could do it with 16 blocks (i.e., only some particular 1/16th of the population is out running the services and the rest stays at homes (especially strictly on their days 2-5 from their day to be out when they can be stealth virus carriers) .on every given day and can only call for medical emergency response), we would be done. I mean, make $A(t)$ depending on $t$ turning on one block a time on any given day and forcing the rest to be identity. That would sort of raise $A$ to the power $1/16$. | |
| Mar 25, 2020 at 15:35 | history | answered | Gil Kalai | CC BY-SA 4.0 |