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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by jdhn on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:28PM (#24214113)
I don't believe this for a second. The total number of people that managed to contract it in New Zealand within the last week was under 10, and they locked down an entire city because of it.
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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by alistairSH on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:39PM (#24214317)
So you're saying the lockdown worked?
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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by jdhn on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:47PM (#24214435)
No, I'm saying that the response in regards to the number of people who have contracted it is utterly ridiculous.
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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by ceejayoz on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @09:52PM (#24219060)
Why?

"Everyone stop moving around for a few days so we can contact trace and test these people without it spreading more" seems like a very good mitigation.

It has worked well for NZ thus far; they've been able to demask, hug, and live life pretty much normally for a while now.

I'd happily take the occasional few days hard lockdown in exchange for that.

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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by monocasa on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @05:14PM (#24216600)
Their response _allowed_ them to keep the number of people who contracted down.

As of now, the US has more than 100x deaths per capita from covid than New Zealand because of measures like that.

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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by imtringued on Thursday August 20, 2020 @06:08AM (#24221656)
You have to consider what would happen otherwise. If you lock down cities at 1000 infections then how many other cities manage to reach 1000 infections before you take action?
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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by albedoa on Thursday August 20, 2020 @12:53AM (#24220015)
This is absolutely crazy. You are arguing the point of the comment that you say you don't believe.
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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by Cthulhu_ on Thursday August 20, 2020 @06:03AM (#24221638)
They locked down the city so that they wouldn't have to lock down the country and bury thousands.

The US death toll is over 170.000 now because both people and government alike did not take the measures needed to contain the disease.

But hey, 170.000 is just a number, right? Just like the trillions gained in the stock market. Fuck the people that died, they were weak. Right?

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