I’m a doctor and so my natural tendency is to “do no harm” and preserve life at virtually any cost.
From an ideal epidemiological point of view, to combat this virus no human would contact any other human, except to provide medical care, for many months until this virus runs out of hosts. And a slightly less extreme version of this has been pushed by the elite medical establishment. We are doing it now.
However, we would be reckless and foolish to not consider how destabilizing wrecking our national and world economy would be. I’m talking about months of economic destruction while waiting out this virus.
It will result in widespread human suffering.
It could easily result in wars.
It could easily result in extensive and widespread civil disobedience, conflict, and social breakdown as an increasing desperate public turns to any means to mitigate the damage they are experiencing and the economic collapse of everything they have worked for.
This step of just turning off the economy is unprecedented in our history. From the time of the early explorers to America, economics has driven our exploration, society, development, and progress.
The risk taken by halting this engine cannot be known. We are only a week in and already cracks are showing.
We tend to think of civilization as a powerful steady state force, but it is not. It requires a carefully balanced system to maintain, and a proper economy is a major pillar of modern civilization.
Kick that pillar out at great peril. The effect is unknown and potentially disastrous for every American. Not just in the pocketbook, but in our entire social order.
I support President Trump’s challenge to his advisors: find a solution to the medical side which allows for restarting the economy.
It has to be possible. It is unacceptable that we trash our economy and risk our civilization to slightly mitigate a natural if unwelcome infectious disease from harming a tiny subset of our sick elderly.
There are plenty of models for COVID-19. Has anybody modeled what happens in a nation of 320,000,000 people when the economy is abruptly shut off and almost nobody can work? What’s the worst case scenario for how that turns out months after people have grown desperate?
i feel like you articulated so well what I've been screaming quietly in my head. thank you! Hope sanity prevails and soon.
As DJT said, the solution should not be worse than the problem it seeks to solve.
"Has anybody modeled what happens in a nation of 320,000,000 people when the economy is abruptly shut off and almost nobody can work? What’s the worst case scenario for how that turns out months after people have grown desperate?"
I'm sure this was modeled, and the plan was implemented, but they got the timing wrong, both for the spread of the virus, and the speed of GEOTUS' response. I bet they figured he would be so enamored of our amazing economic progress that he would delay the response as long as possible, until it really was a major health issue. And they would skewer him for that mercilessly.
Instead he has been cool as a cucumber, and they are left with the latest Hail Mary, trying to turn the stimulus into legal, Socialism, Election Stealing, Green New Deal, etc.
They underestimated Trump once again...
Safety is nebulous and expensive.
Have you ever noticed that the Devil never creates anything? All he does is mimic and destroy the good things that are made by good people.
Marxism is the atheistic brother of Islam which feasts on civil society like a parasite. The Democrats have fully surrendered to their role as maggots waiting upon a sick host.
We have to fight these maggots until our nation’s health is strong and resilient once again.
The problem is the lack of visibility. If you know who is sick, the problem melts away. A cheap diy 15 minute test is being developed. Give everyone two weeks worth of daily tests, and treat or isolate the infected. Help spread the word. We want this now.
“In this time of crisis we need every effort to get testing at scale on the market,” said Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures. “We are excited about what E25Bio is capable of shipping in a short amount of time: a test that is significantly cheaper, more affordable, and available at-home for consumers without having to rely on primary medical services and can lessen the load on our healthcare systems.”
“The same way a hormone is detected on a pregnancy test, our diagnostics provides doctors and patients with results in 15 minutes or less,” says Dr. Bosch, CTO of E25Bio.
https://apnews.com/Business%20Wire/fdf82ea23de04fb9b187dec98482f70b