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My buddy’s wife worked at a local “red zone” as a nurse 12 hours a day, and it didn’t feel to her like a seasonal flu. I’m not an expert of any kind here, but
by wruza 2y ago
My buddy’s wife worked at a local “red zone” as a nurse 12 hours a day, and it didn’t feel to her like a seasonal flu.
I’m not an expert of any kind here, but I think the world got it right not risking itself for just a year of immobility, instead of turning it into a potential “don’t look up” scenario. Post-thoughts are always retrooptimistic and clear, but try to coordinate that in the moment at the country level without overestimating heavily.
- lurking15 2y ago> I’m not an expert of any kind here You don't have to be an expert to have seen that it wasn't remotely sensible to react the way that people did - and that authoritarians, the whole world over, reacted stupendously irrationally and censored their opponents who said that perhaps we should keep things running as normally as possible and shelter the vulnerable. That was the consensus disaster response plan until George Bush took guidance from some girl's school science fair project.
- ben_w 2y agoDespite those precautions lasting until we got vaccines, the world life expectancy dropped noticeably: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Life_expectancy_in_some_big_countries.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Life_expectancy_in_s... https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy > That was the consensus disaster response plan until George Bush took guidance from some girl's school science fair project. I have no idea what you're referencing, but you do realise Bush wasn't in charge of the world even before he stopped being president, right?