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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: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday July 31 2020, @04:06AM (1 child)
Nah, closed the tabs before I read this. Just google "historical murder rates uk" and you should find the one I used pretty easily though.
As for guns, you can easily get one today that isn't registered. Buy it from a private individual. I mean, this is still America and you can still sell your own property, one individual to another, without registering anything with the government so long as you don't need tax paperwork for it. There's nothing even slightly illegal or even shady about doing so.
As for rural populations needing guns more than urban ones? I've lived in both and disagree most emphatically. Guns are rarely taken out of wherever you store them in rural areas unless you're an avid hunter or have a kid that needs taught to shoot. When they are it's more often than not as a tool. You know, remove turtles from a pond, put down a horse with a broken leg, shoot a dog that's getting after your chickens or cattle, thin the local coyote population because they're becoming a nuisance... That sort of thing. The rest of nature isn't remotely as dangerous as other human beings though, so urban life is vastly more in need of firearms.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday July 31 2020, @01:44PM
OK. A brief search, mainly using Wikipedia pages, didn't confirm your assertion. I'll agree, though, that there's lots of noise in the data, and obviously other factors are also involved.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.