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In what way? You do realize that taking dramatic measures “just to be safe” has severe consequences of its own right? Our supply chain will break down. People

In what way? You do realize that taking dramatic measures “just to be safe” has severe consequences of its own right? Our supply chain will break down. People will kill them selves from this lockdown. Addicts will relapse. People will fall into depression. Nothing good. It is a very tight space to thread the needle—- overreact and do massive damage to our economy and physical and mental health. Too little and we overwhelm our medical system and more people die from the virus needlessly. It is very delicate balance. Add in 27/7 media of all forms plus intense political pressure to “do something!!!! “ and here we are. I don’t envy anybody in my regional government having to make this call. Ps: people downvoting this and other comments like it make my point. It is currently not okay to question our current actions. There is massive social and political pressure to move toward heavy handed measures... we should be allowed to be critical or question things. Groupthink is not a good thing.

jfkebwjsbx 7y ago
So now it is groupthink? Curious. I was being downvoted to hell a month ago when I was telling people we should enable measures. You can definitely do things like: • stop all tourist and non-essential travel, giving airlines the option to freeze their accounts • enable work from home for all public employees • force private companies to do so too for jobs that can be • close all educational institutions and let them give lessons remotely if they want • ban non-work related gatherings • ramp up production of masks and other basic stuff • ban people from buying too much of 1 given item per day for even 1 year if necessary, without destroying the economy. That alone would have flattened the curve so much it is not even funny.
- spookthesunset 7y ago
  You cannot do half those things for a year without radically changing our economy. Just as an example, saying “no tourist travel” itself would destroy a ton of regions who depend on tourism. It is easy to armchair quarterback how you’d deal with something like this. Especially when you can wave away “trivialities“ like “ban all non work related gatherings for a year”. LOL. Good luck with that. Your cure is worse than the virus my friend.
  - jfkebwjsbx 7y ago
    Of course the economy would suffer a lot, but comparing it to having a pandemic with a million deaths and breaking the already stretched health system... it is a win.
gvjddbnvdrbv 7y ago
Exponential growth with 6 hidden doublings is nasty stuff. Far more will die from the virus than the measures already. It take about a month from exposure to death. There are 1000s to 10s of 1000s 'walking dead' in the UK alone.

jfkebwjsbx 7y ago

So now it is groupthink? Curious. I was being downvoted to hell a month ago when I was telling people we should enable measures. You can definitely do things like: • stop all tourist and non-essential travel, giving airlines the option to freeze their accounts • enable work from home for all public employees • force private companies to do so too for jobs that can be • close all educational institutions and let them give lessons remotely if they want • ban non-work related gatherings • ramp up production of masks and other basic stuff • ban people from buying too much of 1 given item per day for even 1 year if necessary, without destroying the economy. That alone would have flattened the curve so much it is not even funny.

spookthesunset 7y ago
You cannot do half those things for a year without radically changing our economy. Just as an example, saying “no tourist travel” itself would destroy a ton of regions who depend on tourism. It is easy to armchair quarterback how you’d deal with something like this. Especially when you can wave away “trivialities“ like “ban all non work related gatherings for a year”. LOL. Good luck with that. Your cure is worse than the virus my friend.
- jfkebwjsbx 7y ago
  Of course the economy would suffer a lot, but comparing it to having a pandemic with a million deaths and breaking the already stretched health system... it is a win.

gvjddbnvdrbv 7y ago

Exponential growth with 6 hidden doublings is nasty stuff. Far more will die from the virus than the measures already. It take about a month from exposure to death. There are 1000s to 10s of 1000s 'walking dead' in the UK alone.