Everyone is banging on about the potential deaths and social responsibility.
And I get that for the here and now. But what I do not get is the incredible financial cost of the current action. All without a scrap of consideration to the flow on effect and down stream costs attached to the economic damage.
The current action will damage our economy. But we are much better positioned to recover and suffer less lose of life than third worlds.
The initial cost of life to these economies will be devastating. But it will pale in comparison to the loss of life caused through economic hardship in the wake of the damage done to all countries economies.
If I was a tin foil hat person I would subscribe to some form of manipulation of response. Just too many convenient things being rolled out. For instance in WA we suddenly have a fleet of police drones deployed, where did they come from? And yet not enough ventilators?
Maybe too much spare time on my hands to be drawing lines that do not exist?
And as much as I am not a fan to Trump I gotta wonder if he is right stating we don't want the cure to be worse than the disease. And his current take of his admis actions beening all about saving lives.
Maybe he is looking at the bigger picture and evaluating the cost of economic loss and the effect on lives vs letting this thing run it's course and working around it?
If history teaches us anything it is that anytime we as humans try to define an outcome against nature we generally suffer loss in the long term.
Strange days indeed.