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The countries that are ruthless in dealing this will be able to reopen their economies quickly, reopen borders with other sane countries. Economically they will
by Gibbon1 7y ago
The countries that are ruthless in dealing this will be able to reopen their economies quickly, reopen borders with other sane countries. Economically they will recover very quickly.
Countries like the US which have no unified and sane policy are going to take a full decade to recover. Some parts will never recover.
- tick_tock_tick 7y agoIt's likely going to be the opposite as recent tests in Korea seem to show immunity does happen. The countries that did little to stop the spread will have or be close to immune while the countries that aggressively locked down will not be able to interact with most of the world.
- iso947 7y agoNo country has got anywhere near 50% of infections. There seems no appetite currently for 4,000 deaths per million people that reaching herd immunity levels would require, at least in the western economies.
- Gibbon1 7y agoDeniers keep assuming that everyone will haplessly let themselves get infected. And the pandemic will be over in a couple of weeks. That is an incredibly stupid thing to believe. Consider. Lets say that because people are terrified of the virus they protect themselves. Which to their credit most people are. And the growth rate drops from 35% to 5% a week. So how long does it take to get from 2% infected to 60%? Do the math and you find out it's 70 weeks or 18 months.
- iso947 7y agoYou could get Bill Gates to infect everyone with 5g?