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Yeah, sounds kind of cruel, but I tend to agree with you. In the long term that may be the best approach, but, like you said, we'll find out later what was the best approach.

It seems like we have put the "brakes on" so hard down here that we're actually getting no where useful, and possibly opening ourselves up for long term pain - no herd immunity and hanging out for a effective vaccine or treatment that may possibly never eventuate. Social impairment, market shutdown, financial collapse etc death by long term quarantine. COVID-19 looks to be around for a while.

It sounds harsh, but there is a bit of argument from emotion involved. Naturally nobody wants their grandparents to die, but there must be a balance between preserving the economic system from near collapse and preventing too many deaths in an initial spike. I mean, we do accept road deaths, industry, etc.

Reported world wide infection rate 0.026% of total population

Reported world COVID-19 death rate 0.0016% of total population.

Without quarantine would it have been 10 times worse? Still small percentages.

Is the infection rate 10 times higher than reported? Still small percentages.



Without herd immunity how many more re-infections are we going to have, how many more shutdowns, where will the stimulus money come from?

I thought we were slamming the brakes on too hard here in Australia but maybe it's a world wide error, although the countries worst hit now will probably get back to normal quicker. Quarantine at a country border level until a vaccine is developed (if ever) - sounds like long term hiatus of the tourism industry.


We were told that the quarantine was to slow the spread of the virus so the health care facilities wouldn't be overwhelmed but it's now morphed into trying to stop the virus completely. Can't really blame anyone I suppose, no one has gone through this event this way before - experts can only be guided from previous events.