• That is essentially Trump’s argument.... massively ironically. Not that he’s coming at it from that perspective obviously.

    I think the general consensus is that an unchecked and virile virus won’t help things either way though right?

  • I guess it would have needed a collective global decision to have prioritised the economy over immediate lives as it would have been reliant on the global flow of goods and services still operating.

    I'd be interested to read the various models and papers when this is explored in a few years time.

  • It will. Massive accidental experiments might prove really informative? The ecological data is already astonishing.

  • I guess it would have needed a collective global decision to have prioritised the economy over immediate lives

    Isn’t that somewhat what has happened?

    We have wound down the economy as we work out how to feed and maintain some public health in a reality we didn’t plan for. Many experts had an input.

    We didn’t do exactly what epidemiologists suggested.

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