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You could think of this as the advantage of a decentralized world with every country making decisions and experimenting independently. Maybe the UK's approach i
by magicsmoke 7y ago
You could think of this as the advantage of a decentralized world with every country making decisions and experimenting independently. Maybe the UK's approach is the right one, maybe it isn't. If it turns out to be more effective we'll learn something useful for future pandemics. If not then only the UK goes down the drain and we'll still learn something from it. Best of luck.
- thom 7y agoWell surely the advantage here would be for us to be able to observe and exploit the hard won knowledge of countries out ahead of us, but that doesn't appear to be what we're doing.
- magicsmoke 7y agoThe thing is, what the UK is doing is truely experimental compared to what China, SK, and Italy have already done. And we won't know for sure what the full effects are until the end of the current pandemic. If the UK copied the lockdown and trace playbook already implemented, once this pandemic is over we'll have no data point for the quarantine old people only strategy to plan for the next pandemic with. How can you observe whether the UK strategy will work when nobody's done it before?