Yeah it really is unprecedented. In the short term lots of testing is going to be vital, so we don't need to keep flying blind. And in the mid to long term, there will very likely be a vaccin.... and more knowledge, better measures and infrastructure in case of new outbreaks.
Even the framing of this question is open - or ought to be open - to radical revision: what is traditionally called 'the economy' is largely an abstraction that excludes large swathes of society as among the 'extra-economic', even as it relies on those areas for its very lifeblood. It's only when set against this abstraction does individual life become potentially set in conflict with this chimera. The issue is that the chimera is as real as it is illusory: it is real insofar as it is created, forged by power and political will, one happy to countenance the literal deaths of millions in order to sustain it for the benefit of a few. — StreetlightX
“I would rather have my children stay home and have all of us who are over 50 go in and keep this economy going and working,” Beck said. “Even if we all get sick, I’d rather die than kill the country. Because it’s not the economy that’s dying, it’s the country.” — Glenn Beck
The country (essentially our culture?) is the economy? — praxis
there is - now - a legitimate question as to how long and how far we can and should go in closing down everything. — ChatteringMonkey
As my ideology links a positive outcome only to the extent humankind benefits — Hanover
There is always that question when you are thinking about precautionary measures. Let's face it: curbing the corona virus infections spike is an anticipatory measure. With precautions you always have to make some decisions on what is enough. And if we leave one Trump aside, in fact there is quite an uniform response to the pandemic. The US isn't going a different way from other countries when you look at the US as a combination of 50 states and what they are doing and compare that to for example EU countries.No, there isn't. Until the virus is under complete control, there is no question. It's that simple. Anything else is dissimulation and the effective murder of populations - primarily the poor, the old, and the sick. If you think differently you're objectively wrong. — StreetlightX
There is always that question — ssu
No, there isn't. Until the virus is under complete control, there is no question. It's that simple. Anything else is dissimulation and the effective murder of populations - primarily the poor, the old, and the sick. If you think differently you're objectively wrong. — StreetlightX
And if we leave one Trump aside, in fact there is quite an uniform response to the pandemic. The US isn't going a different way from other countries when you look at the US as a combination of 50 states and what they are doing and compare that to for example EU countries. — ssu
No, there isn't. Until the virus is under complete control, there is no question. It's that simple. Anything else is dissimulation and the effective murder of populations - primarily the poor, the old, and the already sick - in the interests of the rich. If you think differently you're either objectively wrong or OK with that.
So you think that in no circumstance when deciding policy, human live can be measured against other values? — ChatteringMonkey
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