Originally Posted by
The_Bouncer
I hope they will too. But when this panic blows over, like the panic over SARS, MERS, bird flu, swine flu, Zika and Ebola blew over, there will be something else that's predicted to wipe out millions.
Whether that something else is another disease, nuclear weapons or asteroids, there will be something to panic over.
Humanity really shows it's true colours when there is a panic on.
Quarantine a hotel full of people? Gotta be done.
Leave a few thousand old folks floating around the sea? Of course!
Lock down 16 million people? Yeah, why not?
What's next? What other liberties that form the fabric of democratic societies are going to be eroded in the name of fear?
The biggest and most damaging pandemic facing the world today is not Covid-19 or any of the multitude of other supposedly doomsday diseases we have seen, but fear. Good, old-fashioned fear.
Fear is what brings out the worst in humanity.
I actually agree to a certain extent (though many of my colleagues almost certainly do not).
Some of the travel restrictions being implemented ranging from private companies to sovereign states are quite frankly bizarre. Much of it is either driven by fear or secondary to strange historical relationships between (historically feuding) states. Very little is driven by evidence based public health.
There is a difference between social distancing and arbitrary travel restriction which is quite subtle and which world leaders/CEOs/the general public do not seem to understand.