As Ben Franklin is famous for saying:
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”.
If EVERYONE took responsibility to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus ... for “only” ONE MONTH by adhering to strict 3-W guidelines (masks, social distancing, hand washing before touching face), would we not beat the pandemic nationally with our borders closed?
Of course, we would need to do a strict “lockdown”, but it would be cost-effective in the long run, like taking 1 step backwards before taking 2 or 3 steps forward.
Unfortunately, there are always a few egocentric individuals who don’t cooperate with reason & civility to mess things up for everyone else!
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NO!
Lock downs, not matter how strict can not possibly ever work.
They only were tried once before, in 1918, and were a total failure that increased a 2 month flu into 2 years, killing 1% of the population.
Locks downs do not work because they are deliberately slow, and try to flatten the curve, making it last longer and thus infecting infinitely more people.
Lock downs force the infected and vulnerable into the same food lines, thus ensuring spread.
What does work is full quarantine.
Full quarantine works because it is fast.
There is full universal testing on a regular basis, so then you quickly find and isolate those infected, tracking their contacts to eliminate any spread at all.
In 2 weeks, it can be all over.
Quarantined infected have food brought to them, so ensure there is no spread.
Another choice that works is herd immunity, where healthy volunteers are deliberately infected to quickly increase the % of those who are immune in the population. That can take a few weeks longer, but also works much better than locks downs, to save lives.
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