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That's some bad timing for a house fire...
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I wasn't making any assumptions although clearly you are.
In such a scenario the only real drawback is all those old frightened people who are still working and who are not so easily replaced, such as business leaders and socialites and what have you.
There is no pratical way for that to happen without everyone else getting infected. And combined with collapse of intensive care you can maybe get 3-6x fatalities, across a much wider age group. Which is why UK decided to follow flatten the curve.The question posted by lackblogger is worth discussing: If, at least for the young, mortality really was as low as that of a bad flu, why not let them take the risk and sequester the old (in some remote mountain cabin, perhaps?) until the virus has run its course? I believe that was the approach that the UK was going for, at least initially.
Even though a few young people have died, they are the exception and, on the whole, this disease really isn't effecting the younger half of society.
I´m firmly in this category where we adapt the best possibly to the infection, on a national level, state level, and county level.2) Do something: Lock away half the people and let the health service try to cope with dealing with half the cases at a time. Try to have a managed and politely queued death toll over many months. Eventually, after 2 years, someone thinks it might be over because everyone's mostly had it now.
I´m firmly in this category where we adapt the best possibly to the infection, on a national level, state level, and county level.
But I dont agree you have to lock away people but you have to adhere to social distancing and no vacation traveling.
we are already also hearing about re-infections happening (and fortunately also some non-reinfections).
Here in Norway there are several county that have implemented their own 14 day quarantine rules for people traveling in (which there is a legal basis for). Similarly, how different countries handle the situation vary because the people in power react differently. At this moment its hard to say what is the right solution.Many countries have now moved into the locking people away stage of 'lockdown', which is the worry going forward at the moment. Giving random police-people the power to over-exert their personality on anyone moving about outside of their property.
This is new as of today in the UK, hence my posts. But has been the trend in other countries for a while now.
People are starting to equate movement, outside of their property, to murder…
This is something that could well be a game changer and very important in how to approach going forward.