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Every policy has tradeoffs. We could save around 20,000 lives per year (in the US) with a simple policy change: just cap all speed limits at 45 mph. I think it
by lukifer 5y ago
Every policy has tradeoffs. We could save around 20,000 lives per year (in the US) with a simple policy change: just cap all speed limits at 45 mph.
I think it's a fair critique that some lockdown measures go too far (particularly those with low efficacy, or "safety theater"), but it's more helpful to take about specifics, rather than "lockdowns good" or "lockdowns bad".
At some point (and maybe it's now?), we'll need to shift our thinking from "pandemic" to "endemic". COVID is going to be with us from now on, and will start to look more like flu season (viruses tend to evolve to be less deadly over time). And I don't say that to trivialize it; COVID has given me much greater awareness of the impact of the seasonal flu on the elderly and the immuno-compromised.
- parthdesai 5y agoI agree, that is my point is exactly. At a certain point, we need to learn to live with it. Majority of us on HN are in an extremely privileged position where we can WFH and infact for a lot of us, pandemic led to more savings. But that is not the case for an average person out there. There are families out there have been ruined financially for life because their business had to shut down. Kids very much might have life long repercussions from the school shut down. At a certain we have to take all this into account before just initiating a province wide lockdown every winter (which is what is happening in the country I live in, Canada).