[ExI] cumulative cost of shutdown

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Sat Apr 17 04:13:38 UTC 2021


On Sat, 17 Apr 2021 at 12:36, Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
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> On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 6:09 AM Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> You may not think that such drastic measures are warranted, but they work.
>>
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> ### They don't work in an established epidemic with large numbers of
> cases. Everywhere they tried the same methods among susceptible large
> populations with large numbers of existing cases, they failed.
>

It worked in Australia. At one point in mid 2020 in Melbourne there were
700 cases a day, now after an almost 4 month lockdown there are none, and
apart from restrictions on international travel (anyone entering Australia
has to quarantine for 2 weeks) life and the economy are back to normal. But
being an island probably does make this easier.

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Stathis Papaioannou
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