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So, for context, France tried that. Badly, like the rest of our handling of Covid, but we did close restaurants, bars, and everything else, keeping schools open

So, for context, France tried that. Badly, like the rest of our handling of Covid, but we did close restaurants, bars, and everything else, keeping schools open. Not really for the well being of the children, but rather that their parents could not work if they had to handle children. Depressions are still through the roof, grades are low.

croes 6y ago
Because you get depressed if you are isolated and you get depressed if you have to fear to get infected. There is no undepressing way to handle the pandemic, only ways with less infections and deaths.
- anoncake 6y ago
  Our species has evolved to deal with deaths. Social isolation goes against human nature, it's a lot more harmful than any pandemic.
  - croes 6y ago
    Single deaths not mass deaths. And it's social distancing not isolation. The whole lockdown nobody I know was isolated even if in quarantine.
  - croes 6y ago
    BTW it's not social but physical distancing. You can be as social as you want, just not so much physical contacts.
    - anoncake 6y ago
      Don't expect me to use your euphemisms. Even if you, personally, don't need real human contact. Mass deaths aren't particularly more traumatizing than individual ones. You don't know these people anyway.
- Robotbeat 6y ago
  The way to solve it was to accelerate vaccines even more than we did. A couple trillion dollars to accelerate vaccine production and rollout (and approval) to cut 6 months off the pandemic. Avoided the big wave in December. We already did better than some feared with vaccine roll out, but we could have done even more. Also, a harder (but shorter) shut down and a firmer masking requirement and really good test and trace and quarantine protocol were additional ways, but apparently not feasible due to having to heard so many cats. Vaccines were more under federal control and could have been accelerated.
  - lupire 6y ago
    We were stuck waiting a year while the President used the pandemic only for personal in profiteering and to harm political opponents.

croes 6y ago

Because you get depressed if you are isolated and you get depressed if you have to fear to get infected. There is no undepressing way to handle the pandemic, only ways with less infections and deaths.

anoncake 6y ago
Our species has evolved to deal with deaths. Social isolation goes against human nature, it's a lot more harmful than any pandemic.
- croes 6y ago
  Single deaths not mass deaths. And it's social distancing not isolation. The whole lockdown nobody I know was isolated even if in quarantine.
- croes 6y ago
  BTW it's not social but physical distancing. You can be as social as you want, just not so much physical contacts.
  - anoncake 6y ago
    Don't expect me to use your euphemisms. Even if you, personally, don't need real human contact. Mass deaths aren't particularly more traumatizing than individual ones. You don't know these people anyway.
Robotbeat 6y ago
The way to solve it was to accelerate vaccines even more than we did. A couple trillion dollars to accelerate vaccine production and rollout (and approval) to cut 6 months off the pandemic. Avoided the big wave in December. We already did better than some feared with vaccine roll out, but we could have done even more. Also, a harder (but shorter) shut down and a firmer masking requirement and really good test and trace and quarantine protocol were additional ways, but apparently not feasible due to having to heard so many cats. Vaccines were more under federal control and could have been accelerated.
- lupire 6y ago
  We were stuck waiting a year while the President used the pandemic only for personal in profiteering and to harm political opponents.