Originally Posted by
guy_incognito
I think it's much worse than that. A lot of people seem to think that the whole world economy should completely shut down, and a total lockdown enforced until the virus is gone and "the risk" is zero. Neither of which are going to happen.
Thing is this could have happened, but that horse has long since bolted. Think about it, you had China and India shut down, there’s the two billion+ nations for starters. Most of Europe strictly shut down and sealed borders. Australasia ditto, and look at NZ now. Canada got tough. Most of Asia got tough. The USA was the real weak link, along with Brazil (same politics), Turkey (politics referenced) and then the likes of ourselves here in the UK who did it half-heartedly...again see the politics of it.
What we could have had was fully functioning domestic economies a la New Zealand, and bit by bit sealed international networks between 0 case countries.