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Old 21 March 2020, 04:21 AM   #3013
Zakalwe
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Originally Posted by HighlandWatch View Post
Precisely! Hence my recommendation of the do-nothing scenario. Let nature take it’s course. But, at least we’d be through the worst in the shortest time.

The end of the current scenario doesn’t bear thinking about. No working economy and a completely crippled government ...
The thing is it’s very hard to commit to a course of action that you know will cause certain death to maybe a quarter of a million (conservatively). I understand that economic Armageddon might ultimately be even worse, but the numbers are intangible. It feels like the difference between actively killing someone versus letting them die slowly and painfully: the former might be more humane but how many people could bring themselves to actually do it?
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