zico wrote:Sorcery wrote:Your tiger analogy fails for me because it ignores what & how we eat (earn money) while hiding from tigers. Many small business particularly in hospitality are on a knife edge. For many tigers are less of a threat.
When lockdown was first introduced, I was utterly flabergasted that this was considered the best option. I accepted it eventually but with 86% having had at least one vaccination, to me now is the time to try to relax restrictions.
You're right that lockdowns are definitely not the best option.
The best option is to be alert to the coming threat of tigers, by learning from what's happening in other countries, then quickly build very high and very secure fences to keep the tigers out, and have the fences well patrolled so the tigers can't ever enter your country. That way, nobody needs to hide away in lockdowns, and the economy can carry on virtually as normal. Win-win all round.
That's what countries like New Zealand and Vietnam did. Very secure borders, so very limited lockdowns, and life goes on as normal for people within the country.
Lockdowns are an admission of failure to act early and decisively. Delaying lockdowns when that's the only option left demonstrates failure to accept the realities of exponential growth.
A factor is that repeated governments see GDP expansion by population expansion as being 'good' whilst in reality that just lowers GDP per capita and induces inefficiencies (congestion/surplus citizens). I recall as a child where to bring a tiger or other pet into the country it first had to be quarantined - assessed for its risk to the population. It's only in more recent decades that such policies/practices have been thrown out. The #1 priority for any government should be the defence of the realm from all known and unknown risks/threats. Treasoness that this government has failed so massively on that front and rightfully they should be tied to traitors gate, the tide permitted to do its job, and their heads placed on spikes for all to see as a reminder of how their treachery was the cause of so many deaths.