ZeroCovid – For a European Shutdown in Solidarity
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I mean it looks very logical for a epidemiologist if you lock up everyone in their homes and reduce human 2 human contacts to zero. Because that's the best way to stop a disease from spreading.
But if you take a broader view the cure starts to look worse than the illness.
The idea is really not to lock everybody into their home. Current mandatory lockdowns in Europe affect mostly the private area. There are nightly curfews and you sometimes can't go alone into the forrest, but you have to go to the office if your boss says so.
Rather, the idea is to 1) stop unneccessary contact in the workplace, and 2) do so in a solidaric fashion, protecting those who still have to go to work or those who are affected most by the loss of income.
For example, there is currently an outbreak at Airbus in Germany. I can't understand why people still have to work there ATM.
I'd gladly sacrifice some industrial production and growth - meaning I'll have to wait a few months longer for the new TV or Car I wanted to buy - if we can the the pandemic under better control and resume somewhat normal life earlier.