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Originally Posted by Livia
Are they doing a good job? I think they've done okay so far, but we're in uncharted waters, no one's had to cope with this in the last hundred years. Do I think that Labour would have done better? No.
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No one's had to deal with this ever; 100 years ago the global population was 1/4 of what it is now (less than 2 billion) and the way the economy functioned was entirely different. We are literally in completely uncharted waters. The human species has fought viruses before... we get there in the end with them, sometimes with a tragic toll, but in terms of physiology, we've evolved to do that part.
The vast modern global economy is less than 50 years old and shutting it down in the way we have, for any amount of time, is COMPLETELY new (and honestly quite terrifying) territory. It's a massive scale social and economic experiment and we have literally no idea what the effects are going to be. None of them are going to be good. Some of them are going to be catastrophic.