Now I was a bit anti shut down in the beginning when all of this started but did not know the whole picture. After I got more information I changed my stance.
Are you aware of that the daily deaths as of the last 24 hours world wide is 2401? (see link to WHO statistics below) Probably not since your stats even at the high end is lower then the Corona deaths. Bear in mind that these numbers (2401) are numbers when the world IS taking precaution and shutting things down. Can you imagine what the death toll had looked like if the world didn't shut things down? We had been looking at Italy's daily death rates 600-800 daily minimum in every single country around the world. So let's say 700 x 200 = 140000 every day - at least.
Now 140000 is the worst case number of course but this would have been a reality if every country in the world just said let the people with high risk isolate themselves and the rest of us can go about our lives so the economy doesn't get crushed.
Do you see now why government around the world are all taking action? It's about avoiding above mentioned scenario and making sure the medical institutions and hospitals don't get drowned in cases and will have to start choosing who to help.
It's like Elvia and several others have said here; it's kind of a damned if you shut down the country and damned if you don't. It's a lose/lose situation for everyone and also the leaders. This time the leaders are choosing in favor of human lives which in my opinion is the best choice at the moment. Now it should be up to every government around the world to make sure that companies and private persons are reimbursed for their financial losses.
Ok and that number wasn’t from the start, it’s the highest as of right now and it could get higher or it could get lower..
H1N1 was much more aggressive with these numbers than this virus, no one panicked like this.. We didn’t shut down the economy.. And now, it’s just another category of a way to die and no one blinks an eye..
To my other point, you and everyone who agrees with your point, answer me this;
So 700-1700 deaths daily from a virus worldwide is acceptable, we’re used to it, this is the “contained” number of deaths where it’s leveled off... But no! 2,400?! No that’s unacceptable!!! 1,700 yes.. 2,400 no!
That’s hypocritical...
I get that the shut down of the economy has a lose/lose but I’d rather lose life now and get it over with faster than to slow it down but shut down the economy and effect much more lives in the long run.. No one has taken into consideration the impact this can have if it goes on too long.. People are already growing intolerant to it and it’s only been 2 weeks..
Why is it that people will listen to “possibilities” of a worst case scenario when they say “millions of people may die” but not a single person pays attention or cares about the projections that if this continues “this can be worse than the Great Depression”...
Do any of you know any elders who lived through those times? Sure, it bounced back, eventually after a decade or 2..
Save a few thousand lives now, potentially hundreds of thousands but shut down the economy and cause another Great Depression and MILLIONS of lives will be effected and Millions WILL die and possibly for generations to come as a result in the long run because of stress, crime, health etc..
Yea man, makes total sense..:
I think it’s that the people making decisions want to be politically correct and not say the reality of the situation and hurt people’s feelings and they’re worried about their reputation... So fix the small problem now and let someone else deal with the bigger problem later...