Agreed. Politicians just shutting things down without a plan for what we do in this time is unacceptable. A vaccine won’t be safely available for a year. Shutting down that long will destroy everything.
I liken it to the immune system. Shutting things down can work for a short period but if the system goes into a full panic it begins attacking good cells and shutting down organs and the host dies a slow, painful death.
We need to be using this bought time to building medical equipment, beds and places to put them, manufacturing existing therapies to help, training people to use specific equipment, creating a system for the most vulnerable to quarantine but get food, medicine, safely as they wait for acceptable safety to them.
We can’t lock down for months and months. People will eventually be fed up, see their risk is low, and throw the dice. The economy can’t grind to halt for a long time.
We need to prepare to minimize death and we need to do it now. Lockdown is not much of a strategy or something that will work beyond a few weeks before people ignore it massively.
I liken it to the immune system. Shutting things down can work for a short period but if the system goes into a full panic it begins attacking good cells and shutting down organs and the host dies a slow, painful death.
We need to be using this bought time to building medical equipment, beds and places to put them, manufacturing existing therapies to help, training people to use specific equipment, creating a system for the most vulnerable to quarantine but get food, medicine, safely as they wait for acceptable safety to them.
We can’t lock down for months and months. People will eventually be fed up, see their risk is low, and throw the dice. The economy can’t grind to halt for a long time.
We need to prepare to minimize death and we need to do it now. Lockdown is not much of a strategy or something that will work beyond a few weeks before people ignore it massively.