Give everyone 2 months of salary, and 2 months of food. Nationalize food production for a month, give everyone shelf stable terrible food, the same crap that the majority of the anti-vaxxers have been hoarding for decades.
Its like a pretend apocalypse. They should LOVE it.
And large reservoirs of COVID would remain in wild animals, and other countries, and groups (like the elites & their children, or remote communities) that can't practically be forced to comply.
A perfect lockdown would stop a human-only pandemic immediately by stopping all transmission.
Unfortunately, this virus infect other animals as well. Good luck locking them down.
>>> Give everyone 2 months of salary, and 2 months of food. Nationalize food production for a month, give everyone shelf stable terrible food, the same crap that the majority of the anti-vaxxers have been hoarding for decades.
> Utter insanity. Who told you a "real" lockdown would stop the virus? Where did you get this "fact" from?
It stands to reason. An extreme lockdown as described will cause a virus to go extinct provided: 1) animal reservoirs are insignificant, 2) the immune system can clear the virus within the lockdown time, and 3) people actually comply.
Exceptions to 2 & 3 can likely be dealt if the lockdown is paired with and intensive testing and contact tracing program.
All of these things are likely true, because China and other countries have actually been successful at maintaining a Covid-zero policy (at great cost).
Let's just switch to Universal Basic Income and enforce total lockdown to kill COVID and then to save the environment!
Enough of those pesky tourists as well with their polluting jets!
\s because people may, sadly, took it seriously
The only way to reliably stop this from being an ongoing pandemic is measures that reduce the R-value below 1 in a long-term manner, like mass vaccinations.
The mortality under 70 is pretty low.
https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus...