CV and mad panic behaviour

[LP]

There are a number of issues people do not want to hear.

- Firstly aggressive immediate social isolation policies work to slow the spread, they save lives, but they do social and economic harm, the question may be is the other extreme any less harmful?

- Detent policies work, using masks to delay/slow the spread, disinfection and sterilisation, limiting travel, restricting business activities, staffing levels, etc, etc.. These things do not stop the spread, nobody I know with any scientific credibility actually made that claim, but they do slow it no matter how many difficulties they also create.

Really, most of the efforts were ultimately about buying time against the worst of the pandemic effects, slow the spread to find a treatment or vaccine, and therefore save lives. Weak political will killed people, that is really self-evident.

What happens next time, I worry now that the politicians will just assume the next pandemic can be resolved by technology, and so they will be even more reluctant to act, a very human way to think, but a virus isn't human!