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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 l

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.