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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
Because….?
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The fact you can’t think of a situation doesn’t meant it cannot or won’t occur.
I’ll bet you a pound to a penny three and half years ago you couldn’t or didn’t think about covid and the destruction it would wreak
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I think it's possible. Let's not forget covid is basically a milder but more transmissible version of SARS from what, 2003? In reality it had to get milder and infect more people but then we had also MERS and other coronaviruses which have become endemic so it wasn't a total surprise.
So in reality, there are a few kind of distinct ideas spinning off of that situation:
1. that covid as we know it will reset the response we have.
2. that the above will lead to govs implementing extreme measures as opposed to more targeted response to try and slow it down, as opposed to allowing it to spread
3. that something else will come along and that govs will respond in the same way
Covid didn't cause the destruction to the economy and other effects. The government response/restrictions did. Whether the same effect would have happened from staff sickness and other factors such as people avoiding mixing situations, we have no idea.
So what scenario would you come up with, which would (based on a cost/benefit/impact analysis at the most primitive level) result in basically lockdown measures needing to be done again?