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> It was blatantly obvious that the cure was worse than the disease, That's not how I remember it - governments locked down to prevent health systems collapse
by implements 4y ago
> It was blatantly obvious that the cure was worse than the disease,
That's not how I remember it - governments locked down to prevent health systems collapse while a vaccine was created, tested and scaled for mass production. After successful vaccine deployment restrictions were lifted.
- jryhjythtr 4y agoThree huge assumptions here - "health system collapse" was the inevitable outcome of any other approach to dealing with Covid. "health system collapse" is worse than all of the other present and future side-effects, including the effects of denying healthcare to huge numbers of people over the past 2.5 years. "health system collapse" didn't happen anyway. At least where I am (UK), it's increasingly clear that our response to Covid has blown open all of the existing cracks, and it's hard to say that we "saved" the NHS.
- benjaminwootton 4y ago3 weeks for me to get a remote GP appointment right now. This will be killing more people than Covid ever did, so we are in the red before we even get onto anything else.