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>Governments that shut down significant parts of every major economy, for several months, to contain the virus (which imho was a good reason) The covid distrib
by aantix 5y ago
>Governments that shut down significant parts of every major economy, for several months, to contain the virus (which imho was a good reason)
The covid distributions were well known a couple months in.
The vulnerable actually needed more protection. Isolation, cleanse everything delivered from the outside.
The healthy cohorts should have continued as normal.
- theandrewbailey 5y agoIt makes me wonder that when the next pandemic comes, will we do all of this again? 15 days to flatten the curve, but most restrictions and precautions put in place are still in effect over a year later. How willing will we be to change course when better data comes to light?
- Bishop_ 5y agoI'm assuming next time there's so much as a hint of the next pandemic every country will immediately close it's borders to try and get into a New Zealand situation. Of course, that's assuming the next pandemic isn't in 100 years when we forget everything we learned this time around.
- stephc_int13 5y agoThe real lesson, I think, is to not over-prepare. Paradoxically, most of the big governments had plans in place for years, even decades, but they were not targeting the correct virus, and they had a hard time adapting to something unknown. Next time, it will be different, and we should only be prepared to that.
- im3w1l 5y agoWhat we really need is more basic research into vaccines. We need a solid theory of vaccine safety, so that we can inject people on the first day of the pandemic. How can we ethically get such a theory? Cancer. Tailor make a vaccine targetting the particular cancer cell a given patient has. If you give this as a hail-mary to those with a bad prognosis it becomes a win-win.
- dontreact 5y agoSounds easy but in practice how do you deal with the many multigenerational households?