A politician will never consider adverse affects of a lockdown because their solution to COVID is one dimensional. Plus, I imagine they don't want the political baggage of being the politician to not lockdown with a rising number of deaths.
politicians dont want lockdowns. they want economic growth.. its how they get paid.
its why trump/boris/merkle delayed action until march
the issue is that they have legal responsibility of their citizens. and when they have 3 groups of people advising them.. health, business, treasury
its the business/treasury that cause lockdowns to be implemented half-assed. thus causing lockdowns to last 3-5 months instead of 4 weeks.
and then relaxing the lockdowns too fast from half-assed to no-assed to stimulate the business/treasury desires even more causes the health advisers to call in new lockdowns when hospital attendances start rising quick again
its the difference of the health advisers being the bathtub drain.but the treasury/business advisers being the plug
instead of emptying the tub and getting rid of the water. they wanted to keep some amount of water in the tub to create waves.
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if trump/boris/merkle reacted in january and just stopped all flights. didnt do any repatriation flights. no domestic no international flights. and just paid out everyone for a proper stay where you are 3 month lockdown. this could have got the cases right down.
Australasian countries done a better job the western countries
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if there is ever a pandemic next time. its better to pay people stimulus of 3x for 2 months.where people can enjoy staying home
than to pay 0.5x for 12 months where people avoid staying home because 0.5x a month just aint enough to survive on