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Pretty much, but I don’t buy the ‘public doesn’t listen so containment won’t work ‘ narrative they keep pushing. They could enforce it if they needed to but they’d rather a few old dears pegged it than stop business.
Sorry to hear about people getting screwed by the employers in the middle of this, last thing you need.
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Pretty much, but I don’t buy the ‘public doesn’t listen so containment won’t work ‘ narrative they keep pushing. Try could enforce it if they needed to but they’d rather a few old dears pegged it than stop business.
They absolutely couldn't enforce it. Not now, and not whilst remaining electable.
If things got completely out of hand, yes, maybe. It's possible the government would have resigned if it gets to that.
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I don't think you can enforce it to a point where it would be globally eradicated. I reckon the UK govt made the same calculation and figured China was being valiant, but ultimately wasteful in their efforts.
Keeping it out of China if the rest of the world has it, is impossible without crippling the Chinese economy.
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I was musing on the different strategies of China and the UK.
I reckon the UK made this sort of decision:
Containment works but is only viable if everyone does it and does it until the virus is eradicated.
That's not going to happen so let's not take the economic impact now as China has until the whole world has to take it and the British global status quo is maintained.
Yeah, a load of old grannies are gonna die but that's collateral damage and we can politic that into a Chinese virus that hardens/strengthens the right wing base in the over 40s.
This strategy assumes earned immunisation from recovery.