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Topic History of: There's worse than COVID-19
Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Admiral Benbow |
wyot wrote:
The economic and human misery resulted from lockdowns. Nothing else. They did not have to happen.
Nothing else? The alternatives are, at least, worthy of consideration. A completely unknown disease arrived and was noted to be highly infectious and lethal.
Nobody knew where it came from or those it would attack next. In terms of race, gender, age, colour, ethnicity, origin, location or even how it was transmitted.
Surely lockdowns, in the absence of any meaningful information, was the most pragmatic and logical option. Though the economic consequences would be inevitable.
In terms of the highest and fastest infections rates per person for any virus, Covid-19 has joined Ebola, MERS and SARS in the top 4 in history.
And is very quickly moving up the league table under this particular rating, and some other criteria.
In just over 6 months, every country on earth has been infected. Unprecedented in that time scale for any disease, plague or pandemic. |
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Admiral Benbow |
Jo wrote:
it seems unlikely they'll have much support from the USA
With the worst COVID-19 profile in the world (nearly 200k dead and over 6m infected), it might be a lot to expect the USA to reprise their interventions in WWII, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Korea, Somalia etc. |
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wyot |
Jo wrote:
I think you might already know Admiral's views on Covid, wyot, but I'll keep my hunch to myself. 
I was actually already keeping my hunch to myself Jo... |
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Jo |
It's a pretty grim outlook and the poorest are clearly going to suffer most. And it seems unlikely they'll have much support from the USA with Trump in charge, which looks likely, as I doubt that Biden is going to retain his lead until election day, he doesn't inspire much confidence, seems less vigorous than Trump, even if Trump isn't much younger and his vigour seems largely expressed in spouting nonsense and tweeting like fury.
I think you might already know Admiral's views on Covid, wyot, but I'll keep my hunch to myself. |
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Admiral Benbow |
My first sentence was verbatim from a recent Unilever publication. Of the countries mentioned, poverty is the key issue.
Take Yemen for example. A country 2.5 the size of the UK, with half the population.
Individual incomes are just over $1 a day, malnutrition is rife and water is extremely scarce.
As with the other countries, COVID-19 was just the straw that broke the camel's back.
But the virus has made international intervention even more essential.
If a massive death toll is to be stopped. Something all agencies and multinational conglomerates agree on.
Apportioning blame is well and good, but can come later when the tens of millions have been saved. |
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