if everyone took the virus as seriously as china did?
100% yes. If there was a coordinated global response to COVID in 2020, no one would even remember COVID as anything more than "those weird few months" by now.
Remember Y2K? There was sufficient public will to prevent that from being a very destructive crisis. It was averted, so :grillman: assume that there wasn't a crisis to begin with to avert.
If today's worldwide socio-economic situation had a Y2K, there would likely be violent outrage from :grill-broke: if they were told a bunch of machines had to be turned off, upgraded or adjusted, then turned on again for a few weeks to months, pausing their Disney vacations and their trips to Applebee's. And then Y2K would actually do some serious damage.
Yep. Could keep community levels low indefinitely while paying the social + economic cost of locking down when necessary (while avoiding the social + economic cost of letting er rip)
Would it have been possible to stamp :covid-cool: if everyone took the virus as seriously as china did?
100% yes. If there was a coordinated global response to COVID in 2020, no one would even remember COVID as anything more than "those weird few months" by now.
Flu would likely also have stopped existing.
Yes.
Remember Y2K? There was sufficient public will to prevent that from being a very destructive crisis. It was averted, so :grillman: assume that there wasn't a crisis to begin with to avert.
If today's worldwide socio-economic situation had a Y2K, there would likely be violent outrage from :grill-broke: if they were told a bunch of machines had to be turned off, upgraded or adjusted, then turned on again for a few weeks to months, pausing their Disney vacations and their trips to Applebee's. And then Y2K would actually do some serious damage.
Gonna find out soon enough.
Yep. Could keep community levels low indefinitely while paying the social + economic cost of locking down when necessary (while avoiding the social + economic cost of letting er rip)