There was a thread on another site back when the lockdowns began in Italy that surmised IF we could adequately prepare from a governmental and societal standpoint, a 40 day lockdown *everywhere* could eliminate most airborne respiratory diseases and possibly many other diseases besides. And the *trillions* of dollars that would be saved from time off work, hospitalizations, vaccinations, etc over the subsequent decades.
Imagine life with no colds, no flu, no bronchitis, no viral pneumonia or (insert respiratory disease) ever again.
It would be like life without smallpox. We don’t even think about smallpox anymore except in passing mention...our ancestors feared smallpox and couldn’t conceive of a life without that fear.
Imagine how the FluBros would react to someone proposing *that*. World-wide mandatory lockdown for 40 days. They’d be out deliberately spreading to insure “that it would never happen again”.
More likely ... a vaccine for ALL viruses!
I’ve posted a couple of articles of one in trial for covid that could do that- or not. It’s in trial... and I wouldn’t use it until it had been very well tested. Too big a deal LOL!
Interesting concept.
but then someone eats monkey feet soaked in bat lard with noodles and bam!
Basically it’s kinda true. Quarantine prevents the spread of other things too. How this impacts other issues, like car wreaks, STDs, joggers having heart attacks and unnecessary hospital visits.
So everyone world wide should get the winter off.
Much more intelligent to go with the half a$$ed approach, destroy the economy and reopen when infections are at high levels.
Yes, I recall some Dr. saying all we had to do was just stay home for a month. However, you can’t make exceptions for going out for groceries, and all the other exceptions that were made to truly kill the virus that way.
Everyone would have to have had a prepper pantry of everything they needed. We could have done it, but many people could not. Considering what happened with toilet paper, I don’t guess they could have made an announcement —something like stock up for a month—shut down coming. LOL
Talk about empty shelves and fights...
We have not visited a grocery store since the end of February, and we only went twice in February for produce and milk—but that wasn’t really a necessity we could have just used powdered milk and frozen veggies and skipped the salad.
If only there was still an old fashioned milkman to bring dairy products, I’d be happy to never visit the grocery store again. LOL