From 40 to 64 years of age, about 92,000 people have died or at least their deaths are attributed to Covid in the United States alone. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-from-covid-by-age-us/ If the new variants are as reported this disease is evolving to a more lethal version that kills younger patients https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/11/covid-variant-in-the-uk-appears-to-be-64percent-more-deadly-than-other-strains-study-finds.html This begs serious questions did our defensive measures hand washing, masks, and quarantines encourage this trend to appear. Certainly, the modern practice of clustering or warehousing elderly members of society allowed the virus to specialize in rapid reproduction very similar to what happened to Spanish influenza in the trenches of WW1. Reports of unmitigated stress, binge eating, monthly weight gain lend credence that confinement might have been counterproductive. Indeed, some might argue that had we done no quarantining we would have gained herd immunity by now. Instead, are we giving Covid the time to evolve each time it breaks into a protected sector of the population? Please feel free to debate this question in the replies.
Dear Christopher Gerard Yukna,
Interesting question. In my opinion, this question can be considered primarily in the context of the applied anti-crisis, interventionist programs of socio-economic policy and the introduced lockdowns, which covered some industries and sectors of the economy as part of the use of specific anti-pandemic security instruments. In addition, the above question can also be answered in the context of the analysis of the effectiveness of the crisis management and pandemic risk management processes with the use of specific mathematical forecasting models, ICT and Industry 4.0.
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Dariusz Prokopowicz
The defence put forward are to save lives. The balancing act between lives and livelihoods is not easy as some may say they are counterproductive.
That is great Okuthe P Kogeda and Dariusz Prokopowicz for the information.
Hi Dr Christopher Gerard Yukna . Yes it is productive in some countries because they used certain defensive protocol.
I think there is evidence that the measures put in place against the virus are working. The vaccines are also helping a lot, although some of them have adverse side effects.
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