Everybody comments on C19 interventions from a position of privilege or vulnerability. To imply lockdown critics are the only people guilty of motivated reasoning or hypocrisy is unfair. Reality is we're all making trade-offs, and this needs iterative debate and consensus.
Absolutely. But there are also economic consequences to large, ongoing outbreaks. The UK lifted travel restrictions to a lot of EU locations, for example, but despite people going on holiday the numbers leaving Heathrow for the EU are still less than 1/4 of 2019
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Response-driven explanations: 1. Main destination (Spain) is on quarantine list. 2. All other destinations are liable to be on quarantine list with minimal notice. 3. Impossible to get insurance to cover this possibility. 4. People fear job loss / redundancy if they take leave.
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Not denying the outbreak has a massive impact on the economy. But you have to accept the responses do as well, especially where they are poorly designed and poorly targeted. Germany has a far more sophisticated furlough scheme than the UK, for example.
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