We are heading for a catastrophe whatever happens - the 1930s will be revisited as a consequence of global economic collapse in any event.
Policy makers are between a rock of economic armageddon and a hard place of many elderly and vulnerable people dying - the problem is that we are likely to end up with both Scylla and Charybdis.
If we had wanted to avoid the worst effects, borders should have been closed months ago, holidays and cruises cancelled and full quarantine put in place for 14 days for those returning home. But when I suggested such measures over the intervening weeks, I was accused of "hysteria".
Originally Posted by: Maunder Minimum