Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
by simonh on Thursday March 12, 2020 @12:57AM
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I think I’m retrospect the severity of the lockdown in China will be seen as a mistake. Many of the steps they took were unnecessarily damaging, and realistically It’s only a matter of time before there’s another outbreak over there, in fact it’s probably already happening. There’s just no way to stop this virus, we can only slow it down.
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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
by mercer on Thursday March 12, 2020 @02:18AM
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From what I understand, 'slowing it down' is really important, so we can't really tell quite yet how necessary the lockdown in China was. Sure, the virus isn't contained and it will probably return. But how many lives were saved or will be saved because the lockdown 'only' slowed things down?
Not saying I have a strong opinion on this; I really have no clue. But at least from what I understand even just slowdown might be worth quite a high cost.
Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
by simonh on Thursday March 12, 2020 @05:00AM
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Yes, that’s all true. It’s just a matter of the scale of the cost and benefits. Welding people into their apartments seems excessive, I have to wonder how many old or sick people died or suffered unnecessarily as a result.