Whiskyman wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:04 am
mkhammer wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:51 pm
Exactly that...Covid is only doing what life does...takes the elderly and vulnerable mainly.....Difference with a Virus,
especially this one,it's the healthy and fit amongst us that are passing it on to the Elderly and Vulnerable,it's our
duty to protect them and stop it circulating by doing and following the steps we have.
But in ANY scenario involving macro economics there has to be a risk and reward analysis. The law of unintended consequences can be a bitch,. Close huge swathes of the economy, reduce peoples disposable income, destroy many small businesses, screw around with the education of the next generation of tax payers and, voila, you have a significantly reduced tax income to fund, among other things, the NHS, possibly for a great many years to come.
And at the risk of sounding totally heartless for what ? If we were that concerned about preservation of life for it's own sake would we not, as an example, be sending billions worth of aid to address the issue of malnutrition ? And just for the record I'm not suggesting we do that, simply using it as an example. No doubt there are many better ones as others will probably point out.
Our population, and no doubt the same applies in other countries, is getting older. There is now a greater percentage of "elderly" people than there have ever been before. Whether we liie it or not the death rate will, therefore, increase not least because as we get older we become less able to resist diseases.
Ok lets forget peoples lives........
And look at the Economics...First of all and you'll know this ,the Very last thing any Conservative Government would want
is higher unemployment...less tax revenue, more benefit pay outs...so we have the risk and reward thing you refer to,how do we
balance that, what is best ...For the Long term..Long Term...we proved we can take a short term hit,that I personally
didn't think was possible..Covering wages,deferring loans etc...that was doable,a fuckin struggle,people have been hurt,
no denying that..seen it.
But we will bounce back.....Money doesn't disappear,it's still there,sat in peoples bank accounts,there will be a spending
boom when we open up..happening already with Holiday bookings.(which TBH aint great,cos most of the money goes
overseas)but the shops will be mobbed,as will pubs,restaurants,car dealerships...you name it.
18 months the Economy will Ok pretty stable I'm guessing,worldwide as well.....not just us.
Everything The Tories have done goes against their Policies/Strategies ...Why would they do that..makes no sense...
Reason is....for the Longer Term..
If we hadn't "Shut up Shop"...let this thing do what it wants, to move among us...It's pretty much a given that everyone
would have caught it....Caught it, not been affected by it...So I not gonna even try and guess how bad things would have
been.....Despite what people think....
... this thing does kill people,not just the old,do some stat checking,plenty
of 40/50 year olds have gone down with it.
Hospitals would have crashed and burned...and put the Closed signs up...turning people away,would the Nightingales
have handled it...we only have so many staff,can have a Million beds...no staff,it becomes pointless exercise.
Can you imagine sickness levels among our workforce...potentially would have gone thru the roof...you think the
Economies taken a hit now...20/30% sickness levels.....No Staff in Shops,Teacher shortages,trains not running...could
go on,plus the fact this thing isn't going anywhere,cos we never stopped it,it would just continue,we'd be Fucked.
WE done the right thing...