Re: <nettime> coronavirus questions

[Carsten Agger <agger@modspil.dk>]

On 2020-03-12 10:19, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> 3-4% of each of these groups will die, so it will likely be a uniting
> experience, a dismal failure of the identity politics, and therefore a
> serious problem for powers that be.
>
> Unrelated, it's funny how coronavirus has the same effect at
> biological and social levels: the damage to the body is mostly due to
> the overreaction of the immune system, and the damage to the economy
> is due to the overreaction of the society. Somehow the ruling class
> calculated that it is worthwhile to decimate the economy to delay
> deaths by few weeks or months (idiotic statements about the virus
> getting tired notwithstanding.)

I do not think the lockdown practised in Europe right now is an
overreaction.

I'm glad my country (Denmark) hasn't enacted an outright curfew like
Spain, but look at the situation in Italy if you want to know what can
happen if we don't do what's currently being done.

Unfortunately, the USA and the UK seem to have volunteered as control
cases, so we may soon see if you're right about the overreaction.
(Indeed, I hope you are, I have loved ones in the UK - but I fear
you're not.)

Best,
Carsten



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