Originally Posted by
Excargodog
Au contraire. The cost of this shutdown in both human and economic terms will turn out to be so high, no one in government will ever do this again, even if we had a far more serious pathogen for which it might actually be indicated.
Everyone fights the last war and in this case it’s become clear that our own fear defeated us.
I'll just leave this here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/healt...s-study-finds/
Fron the article:
"Societies around the world are weighing whether the health benefits of anti-contagion policies are worth their social and economic costs,” the Berkeley team wrote. The economic costs of shutdowns are highly visible — closed stores, huge job losses, empty streets, food lines. The health benefits of the shutdowns, however, are invisible, because they involve “infections that never occurred and deaths that did not happen.....“The whole point of this study is to help us understand what we got for this tremendous sacrifice that the country has gone through. Ultimately, whether or not it was worth it is something society has to decide,” he said.
The early indicators of community spread were akin to seeing cracks form in the ceiling and realizing the roof was about collapse, he said. The shutdowns were painful and exhausting, but “nevertheless everyone caught the roof and held it up before it crashed in on everyone.”