It will be interesting to compare the results of countries that have shut down with those that just practiced sensible controls. Will there be a significant difference in the death rate? This of course is something we won’t know until this is all over.
Personally, to be truly realistic, I think all the deaths resulting from the economic collapse to be caused by the shutdowns should be attributed to COVID...
Your theoretical comparison wouldn’t be too much use from a cause and effect perspective: most countries in the West started with a mild approach and only toughened it when the numbers got out of control.
Yes, most Asian countries had already been through SARS and have different ideas of individual rights, cracked down more harshly sooner.
E.g., Korea broadcast all positive test names through the victims’ communities, so as to help the most important social distancing. With HIPAA we can’t begin to do something like that.
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There is clearly more than one side to this argument. Will Sweden prove better or worse than adjacent Denmark? One day the mother of all inquiries will tell us. For the present, all we know is that the world is conducting a massive real-time experiment in state authority.
Personally, to be truly realistic, I think all the deaths resulting from the economic collapse to be caused by the shutdowns should be attributed to COVID...
Some of the MSM will likely do just that in order to justify the hysteria and its response itself.