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> Add in the trillions in the bailout and economic damage, this might be the worst decision ever. This was caused by the pandemic itself, not by the reaction t

> Add in the trillions in the bailout and economic damage, this might be the worst decision ever. This was caused by the pandemic itself, not by the reaction to it. There's no scenario in which a pandemic ravaging unchecked through the populace does not create massive economic damage.

freeone3000 6y ago
It didn't have to be unchecked. That's the thing. Taiwan never closed down.
- CydeWeys 6y ago
  We would have needed a better president in the White House at the very minimum to have had a better response. And that's enough of a counterfactual that I'm just taking the current situation as a given. Given the president we do have, the current result seems to have been inevitable one way or another. We could've had fewer deaths here in NYC with a better governor and mayor who acted more quickly, but again, this is a hell of a counterfactual.
Gibbon1 6y ago
Mongols? Balderdash! Over the last week only a couple of Mongols came over walls. Now open the gates so the farmers can come to market tomorrow.
vharuck 6y ago
States are reopening based on the rate of infection. If there was more testing and better contact tracing earlier, these reopenings would've happened earlier. Which means less money needed to keep the economy from crashing.
Joof 6y ago
Had we reacted better, it's reasonable to believe that we could have contained it properly and not spent as many trillions. The worse we let the pandemic get, the more expensive it will be.
haltingproblem 6y ago
The countries that took early measures i.e. Taiwan and South Korea have not had anywhere near the economic shutdown we have had. Economic damage and the need for gargantuan bailouts has been greatly curtailed. We are now perenially in a wave of shutdowns and loosenings as the virus ripples through the population till we have a vaccine or herd immunity or it is reduced to a manageable chronic problem.

freeone3000 6y ago

It didn't have to be unchecked. That's the thing. Taiwan never closed down.

CydeWeys 6y ago
We would have needed a better president in the White House at the very minimum to have had a better response. And that's enough of a counterfactual that I'm just taking the current situation as a given. Given the president we do have, the current result seems to have been inevitable one way or another. We could've had fewer deaths here in NYC with a better governor and mayor who acted more quickly, but again, this is a hell of a counterfactual.

Gibbon1 6y ago

Mongols? Balderdash! Over the last week only a couple of Mongols came over walls. Now open the gates so the farmers can come to market tomorrow.

vharuck 6y ago

States are reopening based on the rate of infection. If there was more testing and better contact tracing earlier, these reopenings would've happened earlier. Which means less money needed to keep the economy from crashing.

Joof 6y ago

Had we reacted better, it's reasonable to believe that we could have contained it properly and not spent as many trillions. The worse we let the pandemic get, the more expensive it will be.

haltingproblem 6y ago

The countries that took early measures i.e. Taiwan and South Korea have not had anywhere near the economic shutdown we have had. Economic damage and the need for gargantuan bailouts has been greatly curtailed. We are now perenially in a wave of shutdowns and loosenings as the virus ripples through the population till we have a vaccine or herd immunity or it is reduced to a manageable chronic problem.