{"id":53355,"date":"2020-05-18T08:15:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T13:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53355"},"modified":"2020-05-18T08:15:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T13:15:29","slug":"lethal-or-contagious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53355","title":{"rendered":"Lethal or Contagious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lethal or Contagious<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Gerry Cranham\u00a0They all fall in the round I call\u00a0<\/strong>1963<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There was this comment at the Automatic Earth yesterday that got me thinking. It was sort of wrapped in a bit of -more- innuendo about health officials not getting the results they were looking for in COVID19 numbers, as if the whole virus event is some goal-seeked conspiracy. You\u2019ll be familiar with it by now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I said back in the day that measures like lockdowns can\u2019t last long, because people are social animals. You would just have hoped that when they were finally, far too late, decided upon, that countries, states, communities, would have made the best of them. But it\u2019s been, and more importantly will be, an awful mess, other than in a few places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I did say that too, that the so-called leadership in the world today is good at declaring a lockdown, albeit too late, but not at anything else, not at timing it, not at executing it, let alone at managing the way out of it in reopening societies. It is all so predictable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But people have been solidly dug into their trenches now, after 2 months, and they\u2019ve done so much reading, and watching pundits, that they\u2019re no longer looking for news, they\u2019re looking for opinions, ones that match their own darkest notions. We\u2019ve come to the point that if there\u2019s nothing suspicious going on, then that\u2019s mighty suspicious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there\u2019s plenty of such opinions, and plenty among them that lay the blame for freedoms and livelihoods lost somewhere, anywhere. So yeah, in that sense it\u2019s time to reopen, the mental health sense. But not, unfortunately, in the physical health sense. The virus is still prevalent in most communities and many a community will pay a steep price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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