It is perfectly reasonable to describe negative consequences of govt action like lockdowns, however it is totally nonsensical to compare this to life as normal when in reality the alternative is an out of control epidemic
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Moreover, I think there's a matter of scale that people don't really understand - despite the enormous ongoing epidemic in the United States, it's unlikely that more than 20% of the country has been infected with COVID-19 The epidemic could still take months/years to resolve!
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In England, the Office for National Statistics estimated recently that just over 1% of the country was infected with COVID-19 over the course of a week, meaning that it could take over a year of this level of economic disruption to get back to anything approaching normal
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It’s a fantasy to suggest there is a Goldilocks outcome without constraining spread and simultaneously avoiding economic hardship

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Agreed
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Could you please explain this to the conservative commentariat in Australia?
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Or, you really DON’T get it. (That’s not true of leaders, but I have seen this genuine ignorance in a lot of folks who, once I explained it, had that mind-blown look.)
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Yeh I see what you mean. Lots of people really don't see how 12 months of epidemic might play out economically
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For starters ... dead people don't spend money, so the economy takes a hit anyway.
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Maybe not none. But >99% infected recover so perhaps not that big a deal.
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