They have restricted smoking.The door was open. Public health interest may be used to ban pork meat, red meat, young meat, self driving, alohol drinking, leisure travel, tattos, fast-foods, beverage with high sugar content, 5 G , whatever the goverments may believe and make people believe is dangerous. We may end up living in cocoons in order to protect us.

Social distancing and mask-gloves wearing will become the rule in our lives. Probably we will enjoy a sort of freedom of movement but the previous freedom will not be reached soon and perhaps it will never be reached again. I totally agree with you, incurable diseases, heart diseases (which are not only genetic but also caused by diabetics, obesity, stress etc.) are associated with mortality rates much higher than in the case of the novel coronavirus but no international institution has imposed strict rules in order to fight against them. It is the same situation in the case of smoking, how many people died because of this bad habit, seriously harmful for health? Only recently were imposed rules as regards smoking in public places, as passive smoking is as harmful as direct smoking.

Humanity has become accustomed with sources of death such as those mentioned in your question. Even the previous SARS epidemic has not generated ample actions worldwide as it remained confined to the regional level. This time it is a pandemic, with uncontrollable spreading speed, as underlined by Italy, Spain and the US, for instance. With several exceptions, there have been ample responses worldwide, lockdowns, movement restrictions etc. as the health systems need time to adapt to the crisis situation. Drastic measures were needed but perhaps not everywhere. The remaining question is: would have been enough measures such as social distancing and mask-gloves wearing? The Swedish case study might offer researchers useful evidences.

In my opinion, the economic crisis we witness at present will generate more victims in the long run than the pandemic in the short term. Health systems should become the priority number 1 in all the countries, together with education and human development in general. Research and development in medicine in general and infectious diseases in particular should be prioritized. The next pandemic might happen any time and stopping completely the economy (even if with the exception of essential sectors) is not a viable solution. Let us take this lockdown as a test but the world economy cannot cope with another similar experience. Nor will the people.

Now more than ever it appears profitable to espouse specious facts and unsubstantiated opinions. “Trust me I’m a doctor” no longer has capital when doctors can’t agree on who to trust. Now the argument is about freedom in the face of fear and confusion; about the right to risk one’s life. I have no problem with that except for the epistemological question. By that I mean the ability to know the risks involved in taking that possibly perilous decision. There is always going to be a problem here when knowledge is seen as a commodity; when people are barred from information by dint of wealth and class.

Of course. For the time being, it is impossible to test everyone therefore it would be risky to let people travel freely. Furthermore, some people can have the virus but show no symptoms thus giving a false impression to others. The only way we can guarantee safety is if we stay home until the risk of catching the virus hits zero.

This would be one of the best measures to curb the spread of the virus.

It will solely depend on the situation of the country, if the country is in red zone and have more of people with covid 19 in the country then they should ban but if the virus is not much within the country and coming people are quarantined then we should allow social gathering and all.

Dear Colleagues,

My field is rhetoric. As I read through these posts using a rhetorical lens, I see a couple things:

People tend to read novel situations and the information coming out of them in the light of their past beliefs, world view, and phobias or preferences.

Secondly, as Aristotle noted in his Rhetorike, it is very hard to move people from their current view. Therefore, many posts seem to be helping the person to equalize outside pressure to move in new ways to the inertial drag of "what i know is true about the world."

Make sense?

Raising life expectancy and average age byond some values creates a non-viable society and potentially a non-viable homo sapiens. If natural selection has created us the way we are, we are now at the extreme of no selection at all.

If you are going to answer your own question why bother asking it? Your point is made with your points – car accidents, drownings, fast food, etc. Asked that way, you don’t really expect an answer to COVID 19 as a unique event.

Not everything is analogous to something else. In fact, everything is unique, special, new, unusual, requiring new thinking, new ideas, and new practices.

What’s wrong with the world taking a short break from its normal but insane hustle and bustle of clothes shopping, coffee guzzling, smog, traffic jams, crowded airports and planes, overconsumption of everything, dulsatory and tedious shopping, overeating by eating out, especially to save a few hundreds of thousands of lives that don’t need to die?

We might have sheltered in place anyway, if we were smart and realized the world needs a rest. We weren’t smart and now we have to shelter in place.

We’ll be free soon enough to get back to our normal insanity.

Tourism is largely responsible for the rapid spread of the pandemic on an international scale. However, whether tourism should be completely stopped and borders closed during a pandemic development depends on the scale of the pandemic development, the pandemic development phase, the importance of the tourism sector in the country's economy, the scale of compliance with other restrictive anti-pandemic and sanitary security instruments (e.g. wearing protective masks, restrictions on the movement of citizens in public places, home quarantine, closed service facilities and institutions, etc.) by citizens, the level of social collective resistance of the society to the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus, effective therapeutic therapies used, etc.

Greetings,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

With social distancing measures you should be able to travel.

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