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Old 27-04-2020, 13:48   #2637
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
This is where it's important that targeted Government intervention supports those who need it at this time. What would people do with this support? Buy essentials, pay bills. This is money pushed back through the system.

At the other side ensure that the tax system is reformed to capture tax from the main beneficiaries of the lockdown (Amazon, large supermarkets, etc.) to ensure everyone comes back to a level playing field.

It's really not rocket science if there's political will to do it. However for some like Old Boy, even in one the darkest moments for humanity, he can't extract himself from his bitter opposition to state intervention even where it's there to support the small business owners etc. To the extent he views hundreds of thousands of deaths, and undoubtedly millions globally, as a price worth paying. It's quite sad really.
What nonsense, jfman. I'd really like to know what kind of state intervention you have in mind. The money to keep people away from their employment will eventually run out. Then what will we do? And those on pensions won't be ok either, there will be no money for that.

If you are applying rocket science to how you deal with this virus, it explains why you think this is such a straight forward nut to crack. If you're a rocket scientist, that is.

You may delude yourself that mankind will always beat nature, but nature has a way of proving us wrong.

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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees View Post
If someone is prepared to say on an internet forum that they think there is an acceptable loss of life in order to protect the economy, they should also be prepared to provide that value and defend their viewpoint in a reasonable discussion.
You have not understood this, have you?

Of course we should take practical measures to slow down this virus. But you will not stop it.

You may save people from dying now, but they will still die tomorrow. It is a better policy to protect the vulnerable and at the same time create herd immunity in the healthy population than take futile measures that wreck the economy and achieve only a slowing down of the progress of the virus.

By protecting the vulnerable in this way, there will be much less risk of those people much more susceptible to the worst effects of this virus actually catching it.
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