Yes thank you for your usual foolish, meaningless comments Trashcan. I saw an Australian in Wuhan interviewed tonight and she described the lockdown there. People were forbidden to leave their homes for two months unless there was some kind of genuine emergency. The only exceptions were some essential service workers who were well equipped with full protective gear. Everything was shut other than essential services and grocery stores from which you could order online only for delivery to your door. Now after two months of that people are being allowed out for two hours a day with no new recorded cases of the virus. Next week shops will re-open and public transport will start operating again with everyone wearing a mask. So it appears that the virus has been wiped out at it's original epicentre. Total lockdown worked. The plan is that if an odd case does arise it will be quickly isolated, but at present it seems to be gone completely.
In most of the Western world as in Australia there is a partial lockdown in place which is slowing the spread but will never stop the spread. So our partial lockdown will continue for a very long time to keep infected numbers low. We are not attempting to eliminate the virus. It will eventually work but is expected to take a year or more of living with the current restrictions to get there.
So which solution is better ? I am on record for supporting the harsh total lockdown and getting it over and done with so life can return to normal ASAP. Others prefer the softer solution which we are following, but I wonder if people will handle things remaining as they are for at least the rest of this year without starting to go troppo along with some civil unrest developing. We will find out as time passes.
