Lockdown is expen$ive! What does it buy? (1) Flatten curve at pandemic peak, (2) Delay peak hoping for vaccine (3) Delay peak for time to expand docs, beds, ventilators, tests, apps, etc. Only (1) seems cost-effective to me, but if so, deliberate exposure would also help now.
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Bullshit lockdown activities seem to me just as likely as outside lockdown. I don't see how lockdown itself cuts bullshit.
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"essential jobs" (food, sanitation, medicine) are actually afaik the essential survival functions.
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Full quarantine lockdown has some real human costs (especially for poorer people) so we don't want it to last forever, but I don't think I want to go back to business as usual either.
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Normalizing work-from-home, normalizing living a less spendy lifestyle, etc., allows for a reset from competitive signaling processes that aren't necessarily desirable in themselves.
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