Re:Wuhan coronavirus: From silent streets to packed pools
by matz1 on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @04:57PM
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>The government's job is to protect the health and safety of the community, right?
Yes but we can't ignore the damage caused by lockdown.
Lockdown is not without downside, it incur immense cost and long term damage.
Lockdown is maybe justifiable if the threat is proportional to the severity.
>and force our healthcare professionals to have to make these kinds of decisions
That is normal part of being healthcare professionals.
>Should we not care about that?
Yes we should care about them, at the same time we shouldn't make the rest suffer.
Doesn't mean there is nothing that should be done, vaccine research still have to be done, finding treatment still have to be done, improving health care capacity still have to be done.
Yes but we can't ignore the damage caused by lockdown.
Lockdown is not without downside, it incur immense cost and long term damage.
Lockdown is maybe justifiable if the threat is proportional to the severity.
>and force our healthcare professionals to have to make these kinds of decisions
That is normal part of being healthcare professionals.
>Should we not care about that?
Yes we should care about them, at the same time we shouldn't make the rest suffer.
Doesn't mean there is nothing that should be done, vaccine research still have to be done, finding treatment still have to be done, improving health care capacity still have to be done.