On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 13:07:51 +0100
Rolf Mantel wrote:
Am 20.03.2020 um 12:05 schrieb :
On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 10:46:56 -0000 (UTC)
Sam Wilson wrote:
wrote:
On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 16:29:33 -0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote:

Actually, I think the UK government is handling it fairly well, no worse
than other European countries, and much better than the US. The
government's decisions are being made with the best available scientific
advice, and they're not afraid to change course when the advice changes.

The scientific advice is merely a detached objective view of how to best
contain the spread of a disease. It is not taking the short or long term
economic or social consequencies into account.

https://youtu.be/hiKuxfcSrEU

Hilarious. Want to see what happens when the economy collapses?
[Venezuela Food Riots]

A massive turn-down of the economy is significantly less than a collapse
of the economy. Bexiteers accepted a massive turn-down of the economy,

They did? Thats news to me.

claiming that there will be sufficient food to prevent riots.
Now, European countries accept a massive turn-down of the economy
claiming there will be sufficient food. What's the difference?

Food doesn't magically appear out of nowhere even if not imported. Someone has
to farm it, someone has to deliver it, there has to be supermarket staff to
unload it and stock the shelves, do the tills, there has to be a factory making
fertilizer for the farmers etc etc etc. If even 1 of those parts goes tits up
the lot goes tits up.

But yeah, thats far better than dealing with some ill elderly people who may
die a year or 2 earlier that they would have done otherwise.

Loom at Milan, it's not "elderly people dying one or two years earlier",
i's middle-aged people dying partly due to a complete break-down of the
medical infrastrcture.

********. Now whose scaremongering?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-died-from-vir
us-had-other-illness-italy-says

Additionally, if 30% of the workforce go on sick leave at the same time

They won't , 80% have very mild or no symptoms which means they can stay at
work or at least work from home.

for two weeks, the economy will turn down quite a bit as well (and this
might casue food shortages and riots), if people important for the
infrastructure go on sick leave in a staggered way, the chance of
keeping basic services running is a lot higher.

Except everyone who can't work from home (which is probably most people) is
effectively on sick leave anyway now.