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| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: james_s on May 12, 2020, 07:50:18 am --- --- Quote from: EEVblog on May 12, 2020, 07:01:43 am ---But even in full lock down you still have something like 40% of the workforce still out there and deployed in essential services. When you are locked down at home it seems like everyone else is locked down too, but they aren't. --- End quote --- Well it was more hypothetical than realistic, although I'm sure they could have locked down a lot more people than they did and with the benefit of hindsight it would have been much better than dragging it out. --- End quote --- They could have, but it wouldn't have lasted more than a week before the supply chains ground to a halt and people start starving, not to mention other services. People underestimate what resources and manpower is required to keep society feed and functioning. They couldn't have locked down much more in terms of percentage of working population. |
| PlainName:
The purpose of the lockdown is/was to enforce distancing. There is no need to stop work, just keep a distance and wash your hands, so 40% or even 50% is a nonsense figure because it implies nothing. What keeping the other 60% at home did was show people this was very serious, and those at work kept their distance as much as they could, so the aim of the lockdown was achieved even if your figures weren't as extreme as you want. Without the lockdown people would have been much more lax (in fact, as shown here in the UK, they were and had to have the lockkdown enforced before they took the issue seriously). In Australia you were lucky you get there soon enough to make it count. You can see from other places that they were less lucky. But just because your place got away with it doesn't mean the lockdown was pointless or useless, and you can't say that you would have coped fine without it. |
| GlennSprigg:
--- Quote from: james_s on May 12, 2020, 07:50:18 am --- --- Quote from: EEVblog on May 12, 2020, 07:01:43 am ---But even in full lock down you still have something like 40% of the workforce still out there and deployed in essential services. When you are locked down at home it seems like everyone else is locked down too, but they aren't. --- End quote --- Well it was more hypothetical than realistic, although I'm sure they could have locked down a lot more people than they did and with the benefit of hindsight it would have been much better than dragging it out. While politically constitutionally difficult in the US, we could have closed borders of states, counties or some arbitrary divisions early on to isolate it to those areas. Not that it matters now, it's spread all over. --- End quote --- Regarding your last sentence, (mainly)... Why would it be 'difficult' constitutionally?? Can't your President 'Mandate' what is to be done, like our Prime minister? I would have assumed that there are special 'bylaws' that cover certain times like 'Wars' (and this present scenario!) that Military Law etc can be in effect!?? As to 'Boundaries', yes, in the USA it has spread all over, but please consider this!!... Our State of Western-Australia is quite large, so apart from Interstate travel restrictions/blocks, our state is divided up (NOW!) into multiple areas, for boundary/isolation. Now, Perth, our main City, is virtually where ALL the cases are!! 200kms South of Perth, are multiple major townships/areas like Bunbury, Bussleton, Margaret-River etc etc are in our own isolated area here in W.A. where we can not travel to the likes of Perth, and visa versa. Now we have NO infections in our 'zone', so as long as no-one crosses into our 'zone', then NO-ONE here WILL !! This must eventually govern 'our' restrictions here? |
| DrG:
--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on May 12, 2020, 11:51:17 am --- --- Quote from: james_s on May 12, 2020, 07:50:18 am --- --- Quote from: EEVblog on May 12, 2020, 07:01:43 am ---But even in full lock down you still have something like 40% of the workforce still out there and deployed in essential services. When you are locked down at home it seems like everyone else is locked down too, but they aren't. --- End quote --- Well it was more hypothetical than realistic, although I'm sure they could have locked down a lot more people than they did and with the benefit of hindsight it would have been much better than dragging it out. While politically constitutionally difficult in the US, we could have closed borders of states, counties or some arbitrary divisions early on to isolate it to those areas. Not that it matters now, it's spread all over. --- End quote --- Regarding your last sentence, (mainly)... Why would it be 'difficult' constitutionally?? Can't your President 'Mandate' what is to be done, like our Prime minister? I would have assumed that there are special 'bylaws' that cover certain times like 'Wars' (and this present scenario!) that Military Law etc can be in effect!?? /---/ --- End quote --- Your Liberty To Spread Your Virus Ends Just Where My Nose Begins (with apologies https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/15/liberty-fist-nose/) :) |
| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: Electro Detective on May 12, 2020, 09:47:18 am ---Don't hold your breath waiting for a vaccine :horse: Decades later they are still working on magic cures for the common cold, re-badged flu, hay fever, winter morning sniffles, (...) --- End quote --- Sorry for being naive maybe here, I certainly do not know all vaccines in existence. But do we actually have any working vaccine to protect effectively against any coronavirus at this point? |
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