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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2020, @04:01PM (6 children)
> If everybody stays at home in quarantine two weeks
Are you a physicist? We are not talking spherical cows here, and many people can't stay at home no matter how strict the lockdown measures put in place. For just one obvious example, health care workers have to take a break, they can't stay in their hospital/nursing-facility for two weeks.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 30 2020, @04:28PM (4 children)
By formal education.
They don't need to (my fault, should have made clear that's totally a "thought experiment" to show that one doesn't need years-and-years).
New Zealand managed to do eradication with lockdown.
South Korea managed to get an upper hand an keep the infection under control (currently new daily infections steady at around 100) without lockdown - just applying well thought countermeasures early and with a disciplined population.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2020, @08:25PM (3 children)
Problem with arguing on SoylentNews,
You might be arguing with an actual rocket scientist, or brain surgeon. [dailymotion.com]
"It's not exactly brain surgery, you know."
"Not exactly rocket science, is it?"
So, Buzzard, what do you do?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday July 31 2020, @03:40AM (2 children)
As little as possible unless it involves fishing. Why?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @04:24AM (1 child)
Just gauging that intellectual capability.
A 3 out of 10 on the Morty scale.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday July 31 2020, @11:46AM
I'm good enough at what I do to rarely have to do any of it to make ends meet. So that's exactly what I do, make ends meet and keep the rest of my time for myself.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday July 31 2020, @12:18PM
As far as I know, the health care workers in Toronto where there was a SARS outbreak *did* stay in quarantine on hospital grounds 24 hours a day, treating patients while they were still capable of doing so competently.
They squashed the outbreak completely, but not without some deaths.
Afterward, they received the highest honour Canada has to bestow for courage in the face of life-threatening danger -- one normally bestowed only in military personnel.
-- hendrik