Weird Granny Slater wrote:what exactly are the arguments for unprecedentedly confining and pauperising healthy people and shutting down an economy, other than the BBC's lame 'The curbs, which include stay-at-home orders, are needed to slow the spread of coronavirus', which even a Trump supporter could see is merely assertion.
Well (laying aside the fact that those guys carry guns which probably churn out bullets faster than you can say NRA), as I understand it, this corona virus can be spread human-to-human but it's mostly unknown (here and in the US) which humans are healthy and which unhealthy and, even, how the latter are doing it. So there's a series of nested risks: that I come across such a human, contract the virus, develop COVID19, pass it on in my turn and die. I don't know the likelihood associated with those risk events, but death strikes me as quite a severe potential outcome.
