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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by drstewart on Saturday May 23, 2020 @06:13PM (#23287018)
> Lifting the lockdown is not gonna make the virus disappear.

Lifting prohibition wasn't going to make alcoholism disappear.

Lifting the war on drugs won't make overdoses disappear.

There are many things we could do in society to make negative externalities that cause hundreds of thousands or millions of deaths disappear. Yet we don't do those.

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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by AQuantized on Saturday May 23, 2020 @06:27PM (#23287127)
Do you think that the lockdown actually makes the virus more prevalent? Seems like a strange analogy
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