Or perhaps stop obliterating an economy and let them actually live.
My sister and I were raised by a single mother in Russia in the 90ies, and we did relatively well compared to many. Mom mentioned once that she didn't really regret not having any hobbies or personal life for 10 years, not only because she loves us, but because she really didn't have time or mental effort required to seriously ponder these things, in almost a decade.
That was all, mostly, because of economic mismanagement.
If you look at the life expectancy chart for Russia at that time, and births - both, again, affected by economic mismanagement - it's quite obvious that it would have been much better even in terms of literal years life lost to have a magical smooth economic transition in 1991, followed by a 100% unchecked coronavirus epidemic.
The unchecked covid-19 would have caused far less harm that what the real loss of life was; and that is before you consider lives wasted - the struggle to survive, but also drug use, alcoholism, crime, suicide statistics from the period.
Oh and of course the end result - in Russia, most now want stability at any cost, so you have an emperor for life.
This recession is looking like it's going to be bad, and politicians from NZ to Malaysia to the UK are saying it's going to be worse than the last one or 1997 one; the way Fed is handling it here indicates they expect something worse than Great Depression, or they are out of options and are going to run it completely into the ground.
Meanwhile, the damage from the actual virus /so far/ is zero, literally zero, a rounding error. Yes, I know about Italy - the deaths there up until now are still a rounding error. Yes, I know about the exponential growth - the current levels are still a rounding error; they will grow exponentially, but exponential growth runs out very, very quickly when it has an upper bound of the entire population.
It would have been much better to have a one-month-long healthcare collapse where a million people with an average age of 60+ die, instead of a prolonged recession or a depression where tens/hundreds of millions of people in US alone, disproportionately young, children, the poor (not even speaking of the people in developing countries), have their life completely ruined - for many, forever; and many die.
My sister and I were raised by a single mother in Russia in the 90ies, and we did relatively well compared to many. Mom mentioned once that she didn't really regret not having any hobbies or personal life for 10 years, not only because she loves us, but because she really didn't have time or mental effort required to seriously ponder these things, in almost a decade. That was all, mostly, because of economic mismanagement.
If you look at the life expectancy chart for Russia at that time, and births - both, again, affected by economic mismanagement - it's quite obvious that it would have been much better even in terms of literal years life lost to have a magical smooth economic transition in 1991, followed by a 100% unchecked coronavirus epidemic.
The unchecked covid-19 would have caused far less harm that what the real loss of life was; and that is before you consider lives wasted - the struggle to survive, but also drug use, alcoholism, crime, suicide statistics from the period. Oh and of course the end result - in Russia, most now want stability at any cost, so you have an emperor for life.
This recession is looking like it's going to be bad, and politicians from NZ to Malaysia to the UK are saying it's going to be worse than the last one or 1997 one; the way Fed is handling it here indicates they expect something worse than Great Depression, or they are out of options and are going to run it completely into the ground.
Meanwhile, the damage from the actual virus /so far/ is zero, literally zero, a rounding error. Yes, I know about Italy - the deaths there up until now are still a rounding error. Yes, I know about the exponential growth - the current levels are still a rounding error; they will grow exponentially, but exponential growth runs out very, very quickly when it has an upper bound of the entire population.
It would have been much better to have a one-month-long healthcare collapse where a million people with an average age of 60+ die, instead of a prolonged recession or a depression where tens/hundreds of millions of people in US alone, disproportionately young, children, the poor (not even speaking of the people in developing countries), have their life completely ruined - for many, forever; and many die.