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You think there would not be widespread panic if we just let the health system melt down? What do you think a world without a health system would look like? Un
by monkeynotes 7y ago
You think there would not be widespread panic if we just let the health system melt down?
What do you think a world without a health system would look like? Unemployment is going to be very hard to deal with, but it really feels like the best option out of the very difficult choices we have in front of us.
Fact is, shit is seriously bad whichever way you look at it.
- logicchains 7y agoIf we look at the Spanish flu, which was worse than this, there wasn't much panic and the economy recovered fairly quickly. Here's a random article I found online arguing that we'd get better results (both for public health and the economy) by testing more and isolating the at-risk populations than by quaranting everyone: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/opinion/coronavirus-pandemic-social-distancing.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/opinion/coronavirus-pande...
- watwut 7y agoSpanish flu was right after WWI. That affected economy and its recovery quite a lot.
- greedo 7y agoAlso, disease and death from disease was more a cultural norm at the time. From scarlet fever, diptheria, rubella, smallpox, dysentary, cholera, mumps, measles, chickenpox, on and on. Disease hadn't been conquered to the extent that the 21st Century world assumes. We've lived for almost eighty years with penicillin etc. This shapes how we will handle the pandemic.
- yotamoron 7y agoA prolonged lockdown will cause - as a certainty - such a huge economical crisis, that all those people at risk we are trying to save today - will die tomorrow from non-existant care (along with many many others who will die and suffer). The sad truth is that a lockdown and huge economic crisis that will definitely follow can't really save them (other options might help - but not this one).