My question now is what if the pandemic came the same time with the current situation of your countries Economy.
If the pandemic started in my country, people with IT jobs would be secure because many companies moved on online and hybrid regime of work. Overall, I think that people will be more ready for the situation but it will be terrible for many. In my country, most people work in IT and abroad, so local lockdown won't affect many people very much but lockdowns in rich countries, where our migrants work, will have a bad affect on our economy for sure.
What about the current economy? Things are going quite well, no? We can hope those idiots in charge won't lock things down again because that indeed was greatly damaging. Especially to third world countries and small businesses.
Yes, that was very damaging, many people were forced to take a loan and went into financial problems, which put more danger to their health than covid. Lockdowns were terrible, rich people in governments think everyone has as beautiful and easy life as them. They have no sympathy because they haven't experienced what its to be locked in poverty.
It’s not like they had the choice.
It’s either they impose the lockdown or they gamble with people’s lives and health. Even if they didn’t do the lockdown, the hospitals and medical staff would have suffered due to the amount of sick people entering and requiring their facilities and services. Maybe medical practitioners would have been affected which would cause a decline. Either way this plays out, I don’t think it would be good for the economy.
Sure, some governments could have handled it better but at the moment a lockdown was absolutely necessary.
They had a choice. In rich countries, lockdowns were probably okay, they were given thousands of dollars every month but in developing countries, lockdowns did more damage than good. Covid wasn't as dangerous as they were labelling, people in my region didn't get vaccinated and where is Covid now? Why aren't there Covid cases? I believe that covid numbers were fake in all countries to make money with big pharmacy companies and hospitals.
Btw what's the difference between dying with covid vs with poverty?