03-11-2020, 09:51 PM
(03-11-2020, 05:50 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: For the time being, there are few enough cases that known cases, and perhaps their contacts, can self quarantine. As the prevalence inevitably climbs, though, it will probably make more sense for the aged to self isolate. A lockdown that shuts down the economy would likely cause cause much more privation and death.
The entertainment industry and sports my have to take a year or two off. Both can involve large crowds and are entirely luxury. The NBA just announced a league wide suspension, and you have to wonder about Broadway and company. Disney parks are not doing well. Tom Hanks got the virus. Should new movie production be targeted? Should people not remodel? Should you not buy a new appliance if it is possible to continue using the old?
At what point does minimizing contact to prevent infection cause enough disruption to cause enough real damage to be not worth it. Can whole industries survive being suspended for the duration?
I have a feeling that in these early days the answers have not yet been thought out.
Pull out the old September 11 strategy of solving the crisis by going shopping?
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.