Re:The plans to reopen the economy are scary
by SpicyLemonZest on Friday April 10, 2020 @02:23PM
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The argument against a few weeks of lockdown has seemed sillier and sillier. The situation's very bad, and it's worth spending serious effort to mitigate for the foreseeable future.
A ban on all social activity for years is far beyond "serious effort to mitigate". Millions of lives isn't worth a global dystopia.
Re:The plans to reopen the economy are scary
by mcnamaratw on Friday April 10, 2020 @02:53PM
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Years of lockdown really would be draconian and I think we could start to compare it to the value of human lives. I think we need much more focus on how and when the isolation ends.
Re:The plans to reopen the economy are scary
by siscia on Friday April 10, 2020 @02:16PM
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I believe we seriously understimate how widespread is the virus.
Let not-so-at-risk people go around will also helps in not moving completely blond in this episode.
I know people that are sure to have caught it, didn't get tested, it pass away, and now are still locked down for the foreseeable future.
In Italy it was asked to several people to donate blood, all of them though to have never got the virus, turns out 60% of them already got it.
We need something more than just staying at home.
Even if people somehow manage to forget the horror and deaths of the past couple of weeks, a loosened lockdown and the inevitable spread of disease that will follow would quickly remind them.