Yet, we don't have 2 options because we've seen it's possible to do a contact and trace programs with lockdowns to seriously limit the spread. Your argument that we shouldn't wear masks because we can't do anything to slow the spread doesn't hold water.
To be fair, the WHO also said healthy people shouldn't wear masks.
To be fair, the WHO has said many stupid things, one of them being, ghis virus does not spread from human to human, even though the evidence said otherwise.
I agree with you.
"“There is no doubt that you can stop an epidemic with lockdown, but it’s a very blunt and very medieval weapon and the epidemic could have been stopped just as effectively with other sensible measures (such as masks and other forms of social distancing),” he added."
I didn't make that argument. My concern is the spread moving too slowly. At the current pace were going to continue starving people until 2022.
So your argument is we should help the spread and infect more people? Intentionally.
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They say that because of a shortage of masks still in some areas.
WHO says there is no need for healthy people to wear face masks, days after the CDC told all Americans to cover their faces
Until June 5, the WHO maintained that face masks weren't a solid defense for healthy people and could lead to user error that heightens their risk.www.businessinsider.com
Interesting article.
Lol, if it helps you sleep at night, sure phrase in the most inflammatory way possible. If you want to know what I actually think we should do it would be to look at the statisitics, recognize who's likely to be killed, who's likely to breeze through, assess how many of those deaths were actually a result of hospitals being overwhelmed, or due to mistreatment due to lack of information at the time and then decide who needs to be protected, and who doesn't. Locking everyone in their homes, which they're about to be evicted from, even though they aren't likely to have an adverse reaction isn't an appropriate measure to take.
No one is saying lock everyone in their homes indefinitely. You have a lockdown until there is a low number of new daily cases and then you reopen with social distancing and masks to limit spread until there is a vaccine. When there is a local outbreak you do contact tracing and local lockdowns. People suffering economically through this is a choice of their government. It doesn't need to happen except for ideological reasons and not wanting to show other ways to go about things.
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Unless they catch the rona between now and then and die since they're old men.
www.bloomberg.com
So you might not realize it, but your post of what we should be doing is bookended by sentences of what's actually going on.
maybe they aren't mislabeling deaths?Did Japan Just Beat the Virus Without Lockdowns or Mass Testing?
Japan’s state of emergency is set to end with new cases of the coronavirus dwindling to mere dozens. It got there despite largely ignoring the default playbook.
Yeah, I know. I'm not the one calling for the intentional spread of the virus to kill hundreds of thousands.
