Do you realize that this "scientific approach" just means valuing the economy over human lives? The politicians are even saying out loud that they are sacrificing like half of their elderly population. It's true that that will be better for the economy, the UK won't have to worry about elderly care anymore & there will be less stress on the health care system when the elderly people "just die". Yeah, scientifically that sounds like a plan. But this is not what the EU stands for.
The UK has been suffering under austerity politics for years, as funding for stuff like libraries and health care have gotten cuts after cuts. This is just the next step of the UK putting money over quality of life for the commoner and over human lives.
It's the politics of a country that doesn't regard human life as sacred anymore. In Europe in 2020.
If you have watched Psycho Pass, this is exactly what the system would do.
Hahaha, that's neat.
Seriously though, I don't. I don't see this approach like that. Care to provide the link/info where is this your idea based off?
Look at this. It's a transition how many confirmed cases have been in each country. (
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Like I've been repeating in this discussion, in my county Japan, no any extreme increase of the cases or mortality despite we had enough cases at the beginning, the weather over here is warm spring which would make viruses more active, and haven't ever had any shut-downs. And until couple days ago, UK doesn't have much difference between that in my country. Compare it to Italy's.
I'm not saying it won't increase in UK. The point of this "approach" is exactly there, they think it's a bit early to force shut-downs in the UK. They want to do it at appropriate timing (which is hard to decide when is appropriate however) and it's because once the shut-downs starts, there's a good chance it has to keep going long, depending on the situation. Then there will be people who are get used to/impatient/frustrated from being isolated and start getting outside. At appropriate timing to prevent that. And so far as I've seen the transition, it doesn't look so wrong.
If you study the process of viruses in general you'll see what they're saying is pretty much objective.
Look at this graph too. The left top one. It's transition in my country, of how many people are infected(yellow), recovered(green) and died(red). You can see not much increase of mortality. Why do you think it is, despite no any shut-downs over here? Your thoughts?
Shutting downs make the economy go worse. And like the "case study" in Italy, when the financial state of the country is bad, it affects to infrastructure of medical systems to support people's lives when things like this happens.
Honestly, freaking out doesn't help making the situation recover faster in any form, right?
