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from the lockdowns-were-supposed-to-be-just-one-part-of-defense-at-depth dept.
Economists warn of 'widespread costs' from lockdown:
Blanket restrictions on economic activity should be lifted and replaced with measures targeted specifically at groups most at risk, say economists.
[...] They argue that while the extent to which the lockdown contributed to a subsequent slowing in the rate of new infections and deaths is not easy to estimate precisely, it seems clear that it did contribute to these public health objectives.
However, they say it is "very far from clear" whether keeping such tight restrictions in place for three months until the end of June when they began to be lifted was warranted, given the large costs. They say that the costs of carrying on with such a lockdown are likely to have become significantly greater than its benefits.
Debate over the global dilemma continues.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday July 30 2020, @02:26PM (10 children)
Wasn't his question. Are you unable to get meat currently? Dunno about where you live, but where I do prices rose a bit and sometimes the rack thinned out a little, but it has always been available.
What products truly went off the shelves that are not explained by initial waves of hoarding / profiteering attempts?
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 30 2020, @02:36PM (8 children)
There are no real shortages - yet. Are we all happy to just sit on our asses, and wait for them to happen?
(Score: 4, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday July 30 2020, @04:09PM (7 children)
I can't help feel a loss of potential comedy at using meat packing plants here instead of fudge packing ones.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 30 2020, @04:13PM (6 children)
OMG, tell me there is no shortage of fudge to pack!!
ROFLMAO
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @12:19AM (1 child)
Get a room, you two!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday July 31 2020, @11:41AM
How're we going to practice social distancing then? I mean I'm not poorly endowed but my shit ain't no six feet long.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday July 31 2020, @11:43AM (3 children)
There is a shortage of fudge. Because almost no one knows how to make it.
It's tricky, and seems to involve experience in judging the precise moment to interfere with the way sugar crystalizes.
There is no shortage of things called fudge, made with chemical emulsifiers and other components rather than rely on this critical judgement.
-- hendrik
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @05:27PM (2 children)
Candymaking still requires attention and timing, but infrared thermometers make it way easier than trying to judge by sight, water test, or candy thermometer.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday July 31 2020, @05:34PM (1 child)
So candy is still dandy but liquor is still quicker?
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday August 04 2020, @04:20AM
Nah, even the fastest yeast you'd ever want to drink anything made with still takes a couple days to ferment a batch of wort; then you still have to distill it.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2020, @02:38PM
(Hiding under the bed in a burning house) "Where I am the air is only somewhat warm, and nearly no smoke at all."