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by chrisco255 6y ago
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/16/874198026/the-cost-of-thailands-coronavirus-success-despair-and-suicide https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/16/8741980... Look at the high cost of these lockdowns. Hundreds of millions jobless, poverty rising worldwide. Suicides and overdoses skyrocketing. There is a real trade-off and cost to these lockdowns that need to be considered.
- foogazi 6y agoWhat about the benefit of a limited time two month shutdown a la New Zealand ? With a national coherent strategy for testing, contact tracing, travel restrictions with enforced quarantines, establishment of green zones We neither got a lockdown or a herd immunity strategy, everyone fending off for themselves