Lockdown isn't the aim but just a short term measure to stem the tide to let us put plans and processes in place to balance managing health and getting on with life.NottsClaret wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 9:51 amOne thing's for sure, if an eventual vaccine did the same harm that lockdown has done - and like it or not, it's condemned hundreds of thousands to misery, hardship and death - then it would never get approved. Yet people are demanding lockdowns, with or without consent, for the whole country.
What's the WHO's stance on lockdowns now? Genuinely not sure anymore, I heard they were against them these days but quite possibly 'fake news'.
Unfortunately our govt has spent more time handing out big bucks contracts to their mates then developing the systems and tools to live with this virus.
This has been compounded by a dishonest press and a public who are more inclined to believe a Facebook post or a YouTube video that confirms there own uneducated opinion than listen to the people who understand the situation the most
The best way to manage where we are currently seems to be
1 Test/trace/isolate
2 Mask wearing
3 Distancing
4 Travel Restrictions
5 Identifying and stopping super spreading events
6 Good guidance to the public on what is risky and what is not
Country's who have been successful with the above have seen the best results in terms of health and the economy so it is not an extreme either or as you seem to think. If the govt would have got the above in place during the first lockdown you can see how we could easily living alongside this virus
Until we can get on top of the above actions and somehow get the majority of the people to listen to evidence based advice and work as one society then we will forever be walking the tightrope between killing our people and killing our economy and as you can't really separate them we are ending up killing them both
I have no hope for this country in terms of its leaders, press and people to achieve the above so we will just bundle and argue our way unsucessfully through it until we final get a vaccine, herd immunity or the virus mutates in to a much less dangerous version of its current self but when any of those will happen is anyone's guess