
“Safety First, second, third and foremost”, this is what any sane person teaches their children, and it has been throughout history. Darwin takes out the fools- of any species- that aren’t safe. Now, I’m sure some will say that It is their right to decide individually- we’ll no. You don’t get to urinate in the water supply of your housing tract snd you don’t get to put other people at risk because of your right. Theoretically you might, but in society others can simply decide that you don’t get to.
Commitment? Every one in this country it seems has a personal story of suffering and commitment, but half of us won’t wear a mask or recognize that the virus is real.
That is not commitment. I’m attaching an article about a city in Australia- snd how they eradicated the virus...
Eradication - should have been our mindset from the beginning. Think about it: a 6 week lock down should do it, right? 2 weeks max incubation period. 2 weeks for the course of the disease. And another 2 weeks to be sure.
But, it would have to be a hard lockdown. Meaning: we’d really have to do it. And the government would have to pay for it.
I think it would work though.
although now, I suppose, you’re going to see people saying,”well.. there’s a vaccine...”. and use that as an excuse not to lockdown.
excuses- are the opposite of commitment.
From the article
“Ideally, lockdowns are only done once and done well,” the proposal’s authors, Stephen Duckett and Will Mackey, explained. “The benefit of zero is to reduce the risk of ‘yo-yoing’ between virus flare-ups and further lockdowns to contain them.”
They treated the threats to public health and the economy as intertwined, which most experts agree they are. The Australian states that contained Covid-19 best also saw the strongest economic recoveries. Victoria, with the worst outbreak among the states, was lagging behind in consumer spending and business revenue.