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If a medically-informed response to a pandemic creates economic hardship so serious that the impacts are more deadly than the virus, then you change your econom
by DyingAdonis 6y ago
If a medically-informed response to a pandemic creates economic hardship so serious that the impacts are more deadly than the virus, then you change your economic system, not your response to disease.
- mancerayder 6y agoYou mean change the entire world's economic systems? Who had a real lockdown and has upward economic indicators as a result? Even Germany isn't spared. China certainly isn't. There's a level of interdependence here as well - if consumption (goods or tourism or take-your-pick) in one country shuts down, another country can be heavily hit and layoffs result. But all that aside, what's the bullet-proof economic system that 300 years of economic philosophy and experience has missed that would help here?