flyingblind
Draftee
- Nov 15, 2019
- 10
- 23
- AFL Club
- Fremantle
Stopping footy all together would be going way too far. You need to keep parts of society/economy running.
This is about slowing the spread, not cocooning ourselves for eternity and hoping we don't catch COVID-19....75% of us will catch it.
You're right, it's likely that if we cannot contain COVID in the next few weeks most people will eventually catch it... but the absolute number doesn't really matter, the issue is the rate it spreads. If we have an explosion of cases like in Italy the hospitals cannot cope, everything grinds to a halt.
Then people not only unnecessary die from the virus, but also from other medical issues -> other infections, heart attacks, stroke, trauma etc. Because the systems is so backed up there is no hospital beds, so people get sub-optimal treatment. The mortality rate climbs -> more panic -> more severe restrictions -> bigger impact on our society.
The best we can hope for is a long but gentle run.