LETTER: Lockdown saves no lives
Covid-19 curve will flatten eventually, but the sooner we go through whatever we have to, the better
19 May 2020 - 17:53
The president says the lockdown has saved 1,600 lives. In reality those 1,600 people who may have been dead by now are going to die anyway when the lockdown eases off or ends, since we cannot keep the lockdown forever.
It cannot make the virus go away, or prevent anyone dying from it. All it could ever do was buy time to prepare the health system for the extra load the virus would impose. As things stand the hospitals are not even busy. ..
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