Quote (Meanwhile @ Nov 28 2022 12:00am)
Containment is useful. Why ? Because it reduces the number of contacts between infected people and healthy people likely to contract the disease.
After you can emphase with "mass societal blahblah+fear" this is buzzwords playschool and it's sad. Honestly.
When you lock down society you incur significant costs. The economy suffers, education stops, and all sorts of mental and physical health issues crop up. All of these things are bad in isolation, but all together, it's a catastrophe. In exchange, you get fewer immediate cases of whatever disease you were trying to save society from. The cost benefit analysis weighs the long-term health and economic costs of lockdowns, versus the long-term health and economic costs of not locking down. What makes the pro-lockdown case so damning is that you cannot prevent the transmission of the virus for long. Everyone is (and effectively did) get the virus in the end. You're banking on the benefits of preventing
immediate (emphasis added) infections outweighing all of the bad, accepting that people will eventually contract and die from the virus anyway.