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Originally Posted by Pierre
We rode out the wave, there is no second wave coming, we need to look a different ways of addressing fluctuations without primitive lockdowns.
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Entirely speculative. Avoiding a second wave means significant ongoing restrictions.
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it’s a sensible proposition to avoid lockdowns, which actually people are now just ignoring anyway.
I’m suggesting normal and never have, I’m suggesting different.
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No normal = entrenching the recession and mass unemployment. Consumer behaviour is, and will remain, significantly different. Once we are done an early, proper, longer lockdown and eliminating the virus (plus effective test, trace, isolate) will look like the cheap option.
Instead trying to do it on the cheap, relying on luck, speculation and the virus “not liking warm climates” will cost more.
I do wonder who benefits from longer term instability. Those who speculate on the financial markets obviously, this is a once in a generation opportunity. And some of them get to work from home.