Economic Lockdowns Support
It appears the health care industry has spooked the governments all around 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 men and women 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 in the event the result by the end isn't clear at all? It does not seem 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. After the lock down is lifted, like any viral illness, the infection must eventually spread through society, killing lots of people the way Influenza virus did until individuals developed immunity against it. Unfortunately, those among us with a weak immune system would undoubtedly be the toughest hit.
In my mind, it really is the bureaucratic thinking that has created this problem for us. So what is bureaucratic thinking? It is simplistic thinking employed by governments, businesses, institutions and professionals all over the world, where one goes on only the letter of the law, not the spirit of the law. In it, there is no utilization of ethics, morals or common sense. One is not allowed to think for oneself. All you have to do is follow the preset rules. It really is designed to absolve the person of the complicated thinking or feeling of guilt because if you followed the letter of the law, your actions tend to be considered correct. No one could blame you if anything went wrong. It induces bullying and authoritative type of behavior in certain individuals.
So when the doctors first confronted the corona virus infection, their immediate response was to isolate the people impacted by the virus. The medical advice to the federal government could be to take urgent action. They warned them that whenever they did not take immediate action, there could be a massive amount of people dead and also the medical facilities will not be able to cope. Please remember the health care industry will not care about what happens to the economy or what happens plan to reopen Americas economy people's lives when you have a lock down. Their only concern is to save human lives.
Now the government is placed in a situation where they are damned should they listened to this advice or damned whenever they did not. To ignore this advice could 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 are 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, simply, ignoring the rising curve of massive unemployment and economic disaster. It really is time they started looking at the economy and what is happening to individuals around them. The lock down cannot go on forever. One has to expect the curve to increase in the event the lock down is lifted. Are we going to go into lock down each time a new virus attacks society this way? Should we not prepare ourselves with more field hospitals, quarantine camps etc. in the future as well as now?
The government is continuously listening to the advice from medical experts who can only think in one of the ways, and that is the bureaucratic way. They can not think in almost any other way. These doctors are only 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 working with this problem? Why can not we isolate folks that are susceptible and infectious, and let the rest of the community live their normal life? Eventually, the federal government must decide and bite the bullet.
