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That’s the point. I do a (small) contribution to my country’s (Switzerland), public health policy, as a researcher, but we have the same set of challenges as most other countries, at least in Europe. I just wanted to say there are no easy solutions out there.

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My point was that Asia already managed their way through SARS in 2002+. While keeping a functioning economy.

And yet there seems to be a surprisingly little amount of "What choices did Asian countries make in 2002, 2003, and 2004? Which were effective / ineffective? What were their economic impacts?"

Instead, at the highest Western government levels, there seems to be an assertion that no one has ever faced anything like this before, and the choices that need to be made are without precedent.

No one suggested that there are any easy solutions, rather that ignoring health and economic experts and basing public policy on fantasy and Internet conspiracy theories has lead to a worse outcome.

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