Until June?!

[Woman31]

Iv read today that these strict rules will be in place until June.

I’m going to go insane before then. How are people going to manage? Surely it can’t be that long? China didn’t take that long ?

My anxiety is so bloody high 😩

[0v9c99f9g9d939d9f9g9h8h]

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Oh, I understand about the economic mayhem. I get that.

I also understand the NHS staff who are pleading for people to stay home andkeep numbers to what they can handle at any one time.

I also clock, loud and clear, that you don't think that's a good enough reason. And you think you know the situation well enough to decide that it's not worth bothering to even try and stop the virus burning through our population unchecked, causing the kind of economic and human loss seen in Italy. Because you know it the results won't justify the expense and sod the treatments we'll have in three months, the ventilators that won't be ready for some time, the nurses and doctors who are more likely to die in those conditions.

I have nothing more to say to you.

[Ordree]

Isn't the point that nobody knows for sure which precise course of action is the best or how to measure it even? Let's say there were x deaths in scenario 1 where lockdown was immediately lifted and a form of normality resumed. Having gone down that route you can't then run a parallel reality scenario 2 where lockdown is maintained for say 2 months, compare the outcome ( y deaths) then rewind time to choose the best one. Nor any other longer lockdown scenarios. Even then, say x was greater than y, but the median age at mortality higher, do you take into account the cumulative likely years of life saved, & how do you calculate them? What value if any do you ascribe to the depression, anxiety, loss of joy in life, possible future suicide risk of those locked in? Do you let the lockdown run until the median remaining lifespan of people saved is the same as the length of the lockdown? What about the national debt and the damage to the life prospects of as unborn generations? Is it acceptable for the government to print money on a massive unprecedented scale, possibly unleashing inflation which could destroy the real value of savings while also wiping the slate clean for the heavily indebted? It is practically impossible to get this situation right but all of this denigration and name-calling and putting others down will certainly make an appalling situation way way worse.

[0v9c99f9g9d939d9f9g9h8h]

We only really know for sure what the NHS staff are reporting. They need space and time. For the immediate future, we don't need to know much more than that-unless we've become the kind of society that allows people to pass away in terrible conditions, including doctors and nurses pleading for the chance to live and do their job saving others. I thought we were better than that.