[jfman]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

To be honest, I have huge reservations about this. As I have said all along, lift the lockdown and we start all over again, as South Korea, Germany and China are finding out now.

As soon as the measures are even relaxed a little (by allowing people back to work) you increase the rate of infection, particularly amongst those on long commutes.

We have already seen how just one person coming into this country with the infection led to an exponential spread because the damned thing is so infectious. What makes anyone think we can get to any semblance of normality against something like this?

I admire the government for trying, I really do, but in the end, this problem will continue until we find and distribute a vaccine or it dies off by itself. Not a nice prospect.

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I wish I could believe that, jfman. If that were true, we would not have needed the austerity measures.

While I don't like the prospect of so many deaths being caused by this virus, I think there is some inevitability about it given that there is no real way to prevent them that makes any sense. Crashing the economy to achieve the impossible is madness, to my mind.

Austerity was a political choice ideologically driven. But I digress...