SALUTE Cuba, they have allowed an infected ship to visit their island and keep their economy going. This nonsense about a pandemic is a conspiracy from the insurance companies to avoid claims, and capitalist profit making organisation that rely on ignorance of most normal citizens. The stats of Cuba infection rates will be critical in limiting more messing up by panicking politicians, who are protecting themselves by saying their health systems don't have enough ventilators to meet the crisis.
Plus it all reminds me of the millennium bug discussions "the millennium bug was a myth, you can tell that because nothing happened" - no, the millennium bug didn't cause a problem because a huge number of software engineers fixed a huge number of systems! Same here, the apparent risk has been low because of lockdown, so saying "we can release lockdown because people aren't dying" is really missing the point...
Now, if as a society we decide that opening pubs is more important than not killing people then that's our societal choice. And in the UK and US that does seem to be the choice that has been made. But let's not pretend that we have to do it, or that it's the "right" choice, it's just "a" choice.
Plus it all reminds me of the millennium bug discussions "the millennium bug was a myth, you can tell that because nothing happened" - no, the millennium bug didn't cause a problem because a huge number of software engineers fixed a huge number of systems! Same here, the apparent risk has been low because of lockdown, so saying "we can release lockdown because people aren't dying" is really missing the point...
Now, if as a society we decide that opening pubs is more important than not killing people then that's our societal choice. And in the UK and US that does seem to be the choice that has been made. But let's not pretend that we have to do it, or that it's the "right" choice, it's just "a" choice.
