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It is a similar situation to hurricane evacuations. A forced evacuation will save lives, but forced evacuations that turn out to be a false alarm because the st

• gremlinsinc 7y ago
  Look at NYC. They've been on lockdown weeks. The first responders and hospitals are STILL fighting a losing battle. Imagine if we weren't on lockdown and there were a ton of other emergencies like car crashes, accidental impalement, etc... a lot of non-covid emergencies are probably still happening, but we'd probably triple or quadruple the load on an already stressed hospital system. It'd be disastrous. The proof is right there in NYC. Now they're - their own thing. Not sure this would play out in most other cities being smaller than NYC, but if Italy has any bearing - Bergamo ran out of burial plots in the cemetary and had to start stacking bodies in churches like it's the 1420's. The right answer is caution > mass destruction. Another good case study is comparing the sweden to switzerland or denmark. I don't have high hopes in a vaccine before at least 2-3 years since the fastest vaccine ever took 5 years, but drugs to mitigate symptoms and outcomes -- the longer we slow it, the more lives saved when we do have a good treatment. HIV doesn't have a vaccine, but it does have decent treatment options now, I think covid will be easier to find good treatments but we just need time for all the studies to bear fruit.