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COVID-19: Eradicate the virus or learn to live with it? | 60 Minutes Australia
LisaL
(44,974 posts)are living with it?
And clearly she doesn't think she herself would die if she got it. She'd rather get sick, get immune and get over it. So her dying from it, or getting severely sick apparently is not even a consideration?
It's some other people that are expandable.
appalachiablue
(41,177 posts)method in another TV show panel last April and was criticized by other experts according to the Daily Mail. Her background states economic study at the Univ. of Md. and PhD from Yale University. It seems likely that she is a follower of the Ayn Rand, libertarian school of economics.
Bio, https://www.business.unsw.edu.au/our-people/gigifoster
Daily Mail, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8237177/Gigi-Foster-Q-Economist-says-Australia-shouldnt-gone-coronavirus-lockdown.html
*'Mask up or man up': Economics professor suggests 'business as usual' to combat coronavirus. Lauren McWilliams|11 hrs ago
https://9now.nine.com.au/60-minutes/covid-19-surge-economy-or-lives-60-minutes-mask-on-or-man-up/2cf52859-7703-4d99-afae-40f8f5c3cd8b
But Professor Foster's university colleague Bill Bowtell is at odds with her view. Bowtell, Adjunct Professor for The Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity, was one of the architects of Australia's response to the HIV/Aids virus. He says, instead of trying to suppress COVID-19, we should get rid of it, once and for all.
"It's possible to do it, I'm not referring to a country far, far away. I'm referring to the areas in Australia and New Zealand that got it right and have eliminated the virus."
bucolic_frolic
(43,311 posts)typical right wing economist. Her words are sprinkled with value judgments, she is turning economics on its ear. Economics is a theory to serve political ends and human welfare with output and productivity, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.
AND IT is a logical fallacy to universally generalize economic welfare from one instance to all, or from all to individual instances - the fallacy of universal instantiation.
yuiyoshida
(41,864 posts)Fuck that, and fuck her! She needs to fuck off.
nuxvomica
(12,447 posts)This is how I perceive the anti-maskers and people like the wack-job professor in this report. Note the aspect of the brothers compared to her. Her face is rigid, her eyes wide and unblinking, expressive of fear, while they are smiling, relaxed. Why is that? We can never achieve contentment until we face the dangers before us, seek to understand them well, and accept the rigors of self-control that protect us, and others, from those dangers. That is the hallmark of adulthood, the process of maturity. It is so easy in modern society to reach chronological adulthood without making the sacrifices that build character. Such people are prone to childish ideas of resentment for loss of their unearned privilege. Real courage is facing your fears instead of dismissing them, seeking understanding instead of covering your ears and shouting "la la la," and rejecting the so-called "hard choices" that make no demands on you personally.