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Originally Posted by Robert Schunk
If done wisely, the brutal balance between the contagion and the economy can be struck, in a manner acceptable to precisely noone.!
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That's the challenge for all governments. You're right, these lockdown measures simply can't go on for months but what politician will be prepared to make the decision to lift them, knowing it'll likely cause a spike in the death-toll and, as a result, almost inevitably see them being portrayed as having blood on their hands? It'd be an act of political suicide even if, long term, it was the right thing to do for the sake of the country as a whole. These are the very kinds of decisions where you see the shortcomings of a democratic style of government based on short-term popularity, compared with totalitarian ones that have no such need for popular approval. Needless to say, I'm not generally in favour of totalitarian governments but this is the very kinds of scenario where they definitely have an advantage.