I commented on one of the other threads that I personally think this strategy is nuts. I compared it to Dr Strangelove, but really I was thinking of the beginning of “Fail Safe” when the Kissinger-like figure argues that nuclear war could be winnable for the United States.

Making a decision like this without releasing all of the data and assumptions behind the model feels unbelievably cavalier. It affects the whole world.

A couple of months into this, my lowly opinion is: give us the South Korean response, please. What I’d like to see is massive global cooperation to manufacture a billion masks, and an absurd number of tests — combined with aggressive social distancing, public education, hand sanitizer stations, etc.

It’s interesting that the UK government rode to power on a wave of populism — yet are proposing a solution that requires full faith in elites, with little transparency into the data and assumptions. A very precarious time.

[edit: obviously the South Korean model requires faith in institutions as well — but to me they’ve been fully transparent from the start.]