Globally we did everything we could think of to fight a respiratory virus. This graph is a sign of how well the hand washing, staying apart, and driving ourselves and the economy off a cliff worked against infection.
It's not worth it, but the ridiculous things we did actually did work to reduce spreading. We saved lives, and all we had to pay was... Lives driven away by suicide, putting 200 MILLION people back into extreme poverty around the world, crushing parts of the economy, killing small businesses, giving up freedoms, and setting a shit precedent for how to handle viruses of the future.
Globally we did everything we could think of to fight a respiratory virus. This graph is a sign of how well the hand washing, staying apart, and driving ourselves and the economy off a cliff worked against infection.
It's not worth it, but the ridiculous things we did actually did work to reduce spreading. We saved lives, and all we had to pay was... Lives driven away by suicide, putting 200 MILLION people back into extreme poverty around the world, crushing parts of the economy, killing small businesses, giving up freedoms, and setting a shit precedent for how to handle viruses of the future.