[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by jfman

Lockdown on it’s ow That can only be done if n can’t without an effective test, trace, isolate regime. Plus wider public health measures. Including paying people sick pay, at or close to their wages, to incentivise getting a test rather than dismissing it as a cough/cold.

Lockdown and restrictions pushes more cases to later in the pandemic with better treatments and the flow of a vaccine.

It’s not a desirable outcome - my point all along remains it’s an inevitable one for all the reasons that justified it in March. There’s no saving the economy by letting the virus run through the population.

On the highlighted point, it seems to me that the economy is best saved by getting the virus to disappear. That can only be done IF there's nobody available any more on to whom CV can be passed. That needs a number of IFs to converge simultaneously.

But that has to be across the world, not just here unless we are to be cocooned and then there is no return to economic advance.

Doomed, maybe.