Sounds like the lesson is that if you're willing to lose old people you don't have to lock down. As an old person I have my doubts about that approach. In the last three days one of my highschool classmates died of covid related causes and a first cousin died of a heart attack with no known covid involvement.
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, May 3, 2020, 10:55 AM Merle Lefkoff <merlelefk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nick, the only mainstream news program I watch is Fareed Zakaria on Sunday > morning. Below is part of this morning's report. Not surprisingly (for > those of us who have had the privilege recently of spending time in > Sweden), the answer to how it's working, is just about like the countries > that are locked down, with one exception. More deaths (mostly among the > elderly who primarily live together in retirement). > > As world governments employ different policies to fight Covid-19, Sweden’s > relaxed approach stands out: Eschewing lockdowns, the country has left its > schools, gyms, cafes, bars and restaurants open throughout the spread of > the pandemic. Fareed interviews the man behind that strategy, *Anders > Tegnell*, the Swedish government’s top epidemiologist, about how it’s > working and whether his country can offer any lessons to the rest of the > world. > > On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 10:34 AM <thompnicks...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Colleagues, >> >> >> >> I have asked this question before and nobody has responded (for clear and >> good reasons, no doubt) but I thought I would ask it again. What exactly >> is this economy we are bent on reviving? What exactly is the difference in >> human activity between our present state and a revived economy. We can go >> to bars and concerts and football games? Is that the economy we are >> reviving? It seems to me that the difference between a “healty” economy >> and our present status consists possibly in nothing more than a lot of >> people frantically rushing about doing things they don’t really need to >> do? >> >> >> >> You recall that I invoked as a model that experiment in which 24 rats >> were put in a quarter acre enclosure in Baltimore and fed and watered and >> protected to see how the population would develop. They never got above >> two hundred. Infant mortality, etc., was appalling. Carnage. In the same >> space, a competent lab breeding organization could have kept a population >> of tens of thousands. >> >> >> >> Don’t yell at me. What fundamental proposition about economics do I not >> understand? >> >> >> >> Nick >> >> >> >> Nicholas Thompson >> >> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology >> >> Clark University >> >> thompnicks...@gmail.com >> >> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ >> >> >> >> >> .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... >> .... . ... >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam >> unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> > > > -- > Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. > President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy > emergentdiplomacy.org > Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA > merlelefk...@gmail.com <merlelef...@gmail.com> > mobile: (303) 859-5609 > skype: merle.lelfkoff2 > twitter: @Merle_Lefkoff > .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... > .... . ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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