Economic Lockdowns Expertise

It seems the health sector has spooked the governments all over the world to take drastic action over the killer corona virus. Because of bureaucratic thinking, the world leaders had no choice but to go into lock down and show the world that they were equally concerned and not backward in protecting human lives.

It did not matter if these steps made millions of individuals jobless, businesses go broke, airline companies collapse, cruise operators and tourism shut up shop. It did not matter what happened to the economy and what happens to people's lives as a consequence. The main aim was to save human beings at any cost. How can anyone criticize or argue against such a noble cause?

But how can this horrendous cost be justified when the result by the end is not clear at all? It will not appear to be a rational decision for me. Should the steps taken stopped or eradicated the disease or killed the virus, one could understand the lock down. But it only slows down the spread of the virus. Once the lock down is lifted, like any viral illness, the infection must eventually spread through society, killing many individuals the way Influenza virus did until individuals developed immunity against it. Unfortunately, those among us with a weak immune system would undoubtedly be the hardest hit.

In my mind, it really is the bureaucratic thinking that has created this problem for us. So what is bureaucratic thinking? It really is simplistic thinking employed by governments, businesses, institutions and professionals all around the world, where one goes by only the letter of the law, not the spirit of the law. In it, there's absolutely no utilization of ethics, morals or common sense. One is not permitted to think strategies for COVID-19 oneself. All you need to do is follow the preset rules. It's designed to absolve the person associated with any complicated thinking or feeling of guilt because if you followed the letter of the law, your actions tend to be considered correct. Nobody could blame you if anything went wrong. It induces bullying and authoritative sort of behavior in certain individuals.

So in the event the doctors first confronted the corona virus infection, their immediate response was to isolate the individuals affected by the virus. The medical health advice to the federal government will be to take urgent action. They warned them that if they did not take immediate action, there could be a tremendous number of individuals dead as well as the medical facilities will not be able to cope. Please remember the medical field will not care about what happens to the economy or what happens to people's lives when you have a lock down. Their only concern is to save human lives.

Now the federal government is placed in a situation where they're damned should they listened to this advice or damned should they did not. To ignore this advice would be political suicide. They had to show the world that they were more concerned with saving human lives than protecting the economy. They had no choice.

Thus we have been now under lock-down with more bureaucratic restrictions and control everywhere. Politicians are justifying their actions by bragging about flattening the curve of the spread of the virus. You do not have to be a prophet to predict this because we have all stopped socializing. They're, as always, ignoring the rising curve of massive unemployment and financial disaster. It's time they started looking at the economy and what is happening to the individuals around them. The lock down cannot go on forever. One must expect the curve to increase once the lock down is lifted. Are we going to go into lock down each time a brand new virus attacks society this way? Should we not prepare ourselves with more field hospitals, quarantine camps etc. down the road or perhaps now?

The government is continuously listening to the advice from medical experts that will only think in one of the ways, and that is the bureaucratic way. They cannot think in almost any other way. These doctors will be just concerned with saving lives at any cost. They don't care about the economy or what happens to the people who lose their jobs. If governments keep listening to these experts, how can we possibly arrive at a sensible approach to addressing this problem? Why can't we isolate men and women that are susceptible and infectious, and allow the rest of the community live their normal life? Sooner or later, the government must decide and bite the bullet.