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On principle lockdowns work. If everyone is in a bubble, isolated from everyone else, no transmission of anything occurs, no disease, no nothing. Utopia. In pra
by sto_hristo 6y ago
On principle lockdowns work. If everyone is in a bubble, isolated from everyone else, no transmission of anything occurs, no disease, no nothing. Utopia. In practice this is impossible. The lockdowns you impose eventually get lifted and the ultra contagious disease catches up, then you impose new lockdowns, rinse and repeat. It's unsustainable. These lockdowns make sense when you're caught unprepared at the very beginning of a pandemic and are used to reorganize nation's resources and capabilities to be able to take care as much as possible for the minority of people at risk.
What is sustainable is being a sparsely populated nation in a dry climate, heat, summer, sun, most importantly - healthy non-obese people and not everyone being 90 years old with a list of chronic illnesses. Most nations aren't like that.
So sorry to burst your Jesus insecurity, but nobody is saving anyone by #stayathome. And this will be evident in a year or two when you draw the line and find out that nations with severe lockdowns ended up being not that better than those without any lockdowns.
This is the most highly contagious virus and it won't magically disappear. Mutations already kick in and there is little insight how current vaccines will fare in the long run. Lockdowns and mass vaccination every cold season? Good luck with that. I don't even visit the dentist that often.