> people aren’t showing up to work because they’re sick
But people have been getting sick as long as there have been people, and civilization was somehow able to deal with it until two years ago.
But people have been getting sick as long as there have been people, and civilization was somehow able to deal with it until two years ago.
This is the first widespread pandemic in most of our lifetimes, but definitely not the first one. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1920 was much worse and disruptive than this.
People will locally optimize in the absence of government intervention, which means lockdown-like conditions are inevitable as people simply stop going to work in large enough numbers they cannot be replaced.
We could go back to what they did in 1347, during the Bubonic plague, and cover our bodies in a robe from head to toe and wear beaked masks stuffed with herbs, spices and straws to filter the air, and examine people using only a cane to keep their distance, like doctors did back then.
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