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That's... completely insane. There "aren't many reasons to be doing it too early"? Stopping, or at least slowing the spread of a worldwide pandemic isn't a good
by bananabreakfast 7y ago
That's... completely insane. There "aren't many reasons to be doing it too early"? Stopping, or at least slowing the spread of a worldwide pandemic isn't a good reason? Preventing 3% of your population from dying over the next year isn't a good reason?
Waiting until the problem obviously seems like a real problem is exactly what crushed cultures under epidemics in the past.
- codeulike 7y agoThe UK strategy is based on the idea that the pandemic cannot be stopped, but can be slowed down and directed away from the most vulnerable. So there are certain assumptions there that people can agree or disagree with. But its not 'completely insane'. And yes South Korea and China seem to have stopped the pandemic in their countries, and have done an impressive job at it, but its early days and not at all clear how sustainable their approach is, or whether that approach would work everywhere.
- tjoff 7y agoNo, it is not. It is too late for stopping it and you can barely delay it either. You delay a few days or maybe 1-2 weeks if stringent but it won't be as effective when you desperately need it to be. Likely more will die if you start too early.
- tartoran 7y agoYeah, the pragmatic mindset might as well calculate the savings on pensions from deceased elderly. I personally find this unacceptable. More should have been done earlier and it didn’t happen. We’ll see how this affects the next elections though..