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COVID-19: Eradicate the virus or learn to live with it? 60 Minutes Australia (Original Post) KWR65 Jul 2020 OP
Has the professor of economics looked into how well we (US) LisaL Jul 2020 #1
Foster also suggested using the 'herd immunity' appalachiablue Jul 2020 #2
What a wackjob, all she thinks about is money bucolic_frolic Jul 2020 #3
So let me get his straight, she wants people to go back to work and if you die you die??? yuiyoshida Jul 2020 #4
those who suffer from too much fear may think themselves brave nuxvomica Jul 2020 #5

LisaL

(44,973 posts)
1. Has the professor of economics looked into how well we (US)
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 05:12 PM
Jul 2020

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

(41,140 posts)
2. Foster also suggested using the 'herd immunity'
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 07:04 PM
Jul 2020

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

(43,173 posts)
3. What a wackjob, all she thinks about is money
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 09:07 PM
Jul 2020

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

(41,831 posts)
4. So let me get his straight, she wants people to go back to work and if you die you die???
Mon Jul 27, 2020, 01:07 AM
Jul 2020

Fuck that, and fuck her! She needs to fuck off.

nuxvomica

(12,426 posts)
5. those who suffer from too much fear may think themselves brave
Mon Jul 27, 2020, 03:31 AM
Jul 2020

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.

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