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Fantastic! Except you can't know in advance. So, the intelligent thing to do is to be prudent until you know what you're dealing with. Otherwise, by the time yo
by rscho 2y ago
Fantastic! Except you can't know in advance. So, the intelligent thing to do is to be prudent until you know what you're dealing with. Otherwise, by the time you decide it's dangerous enough to do something, you've already got an uncontrollable spread on your hands.
- maskzoff 2y ago[dead]
- mewpmewp2 2y agoYeah, but economic damage is still what many people and countries feel from the event and maybe for years to come.
- rscho 2y agoBeing prudent doesn't mean stopping the economy in its tracks. It means appropriate planning and monitoring, with intervention as necessary. For some reason, people don't consider the cost of an unchecked epidemy, which is just as real as that of a controlled one. Except people have nothing to complain about, since they don't feel under pressure from anyone. They just feel sick...
- brandonmenc 2y ago> the intelligent thing to do is to be prudent until you know what you're dealing with Right. Which the general public figured out - accurately - about a month into the lockdowns. People will self-isolate for a week or two the next time around, but it's going to have to be a very different disease before we permit ridiculous extended lockdowns again.
- pclmulqdq 2y agoUsually, the rational thing to in situations where you have unknowns is to act as though those unknowns are unknown, and not alter your behavior.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoWe knew a few weeks in what the transmission rate and mortality numbers were, before it was even spreading widely in the US.