MARK BARNES: Tackling this crisis needs more carrots and less sticks
Keeping an entire society locked in cages will not cure Covid-19 and its myriad consequences
06 May 2020 - 14:21
There can be no doubt that the first action had to be shut down, buy time, learn, understand, prepare.
Whether hindsight proves that a laissez-faire attitude would have brought no different result, it would have been irresponsible for the government not to build a solid defence against this approaching danger, particularly when the precise nature, strength and weaponry of the enemy is unknown...
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