Opinion: The Great Lockdown is a sledgehammer busting dreams that won't bounce back | emfarrelly
In Australia 65 people have died. Then again, 119 Australians die from cardiovascular heart disease on average every day, and we don’t ban animal fats. We don’t mandate cardio-training. True, it’s worse elsewhere, but is it worth poisoning the entire world economy?
Lockdown has costs. We all know them; boredom, misery, missing births and deaths, weddings reduced to virtuality; the impossibility of adequate exercise and greater impossibility of working from home with background pre-schoolers. The sense of personal dissolution, the choirs struggling to vibe, the empty streets and locked bars, black windows that were once joyous.Then there’s the violence.
Certainly, there are upsides to mass poverty. When everyone is poor, poverty is destigmatised. You can be poor and honourable, both. This improves our collective morality and makes us nicer people. Global poverty could also benefit the environment. Patching, mending, fixing, recycling; less self-indulgence means fewer emissions and dramatically less environmental wreckage.
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