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Topic	Omicron is now most common coronavirus variant in U.S.
adjl 12/21/21 3:07:29 PM #26:	Kyuubi4269 posted... Every country had the potential to operate an absolute lockdown and kill off the virus Eh, no they didn't. The notion of the entire world shutting down for 3-4 weeks to let the virus die out is a nice fantasy that sounds really simple and effective on paper, but there's really no way to actually translate that into the real world. If nothing else, the extent to which so many people have resisted and outright defied such simple restrictions as "wear a mask" tells us we'd never actually get everyone cooperating in a real lockdown, so that would either create a need for enforcement (expensive, ethically questionable, and results in exposures that would probably end up nullifying the whole exercise anyway) or just break the whole thing because of a few non-compliant douchebags wandering around freely. Even if we assume that everyone would cooperate, the logistics of pulling it off would be absolutely insane. Right off the bat, you've got the challenge of getting a month's worth of beans and rice to everyone's door. Utilities would need to continue operating (at least power and water, and Internet/cell service would also need to be maintained at least well enough to communicate new directions to everyone), so those workers would still have to be out and about. Some utilities would be able to function by having their crews live on site for that period, effectively isolating them, but then there's the risk of an outbreak within one of those crews crippling the local infrastructure. Farms and ranches would need to continue to operate, since you can't just stop tending crops/livestock for a month and expect everything to be fine when you come back. Household repairs could possibly be ignored if we're okay letting a few unlucky people die to E. coli after their sewers stop working, but that's a hard sell. The biggest mistake pretty much everyone has made is relaxing whatever restrictions they have had in place before case numbers actually got low enough for that to be a good idea. A lot of that comes from political pressure, which has been a major problem through this whole ordeal. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:961106781] in Omicron is... [t:79819244]...</cite> <quote>Kyuubi4269 posted... </cite> <quote>Every country had the potential to operate an absolute lockdown and kill off the virus</quote> Eh, no they didn't. The notion of the entire world shutting down for 3-4 weeks to let the virus die out is a nice fantasy that sounds really simple and effective on paper, but there's really no way to actually translate that into the real world. If nothing else, the extent to which so many people have resisted and outright defied such simple restrictions as "wear a mask" tells us we'd never actually get everyone cooperating in a real lockdown, so that would either create a need for enforcement (expensive, ethically questionable, and results in exposures that would probably end up nullifying the whole exercise anyway) or just break the whole thing because of a few non-compliant douchebags wandering around freely. Even if we assume that everyone would cooperate, the logistics of pulling it off would be absolutely insane. Right off the bat, you've got the challenge of getting a month's worth of beans and rice to everyone's door. Utilities would need to continue operating (at least power and water, and Internet/cell service would also need to be maintained at least well enough to communicate new directions to everyone), so those workers would still have to be out and about. Some utilities would be able to function by having their crews live on site for that period, effectively isolating them, but then there's the risk of an outbreak within one of those crews crippling the local infrastructure. Farms and ranches would need to continue to operate, since you can't just stop tending crops/livestock for a month and expect everything to be fine when you come back. Household repairs could possibly be ignored if we're okay letting a few unlucky people die to E. coli after their sewers stop working, but that's a hard sell. The biggest mistake pretty much everyone has made is relaxing whatever restrictions they have had in place before case numbers actually got low enough for that to be a good idea. A lot of that comes from political pressure, which has been a major problem through this whole ordeal. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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