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SvennoJ on 28 April 2020
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Phoenix20 said:

Combination of protecting economy and minimising losses through sheltering vulnerable old and people with pre-existing health issues.
Business as usual for the fit and healthy and shelter/cocoon the older 65+ people and the sick and vulnerable.
The majority of the population are fit and healthy: kids can go to school and businesses should stay open and allow the fit and healthy to maintain the economy and minimise economic impact. Valuable lessons will be learnt and better strategies and policies can be adopted to ensure a better outcome.

Singapore, South Korea and Hong Kong have kept their economies going and their approach is working. European nations and the Americans can learn from nations that have used better strategies and policies that have worked to minimise loss of human life.

That was the initial plan in the UK which they started with first, then reversed course since all the mitigation models while sheltering the old and at risk still turned into the collapse of the health care system.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/mrc-gida/2020-03-16-COVID19-Report-9.pdf

Welcome back to March 16th. Currently the UK has the highest reported daily cases and deaths in Europe thanks to starting late with suppression.

You would have to shelter everyone over 35 to keep critical care demand low enough. It's not just the 65+ and over. And how exactly are you going to separate families to achieve that? Or keep everyone over and under 40 apart in the work place?


South Korea didn't keep all their economy going and is suffering as well

https://www.fxstreet.com/news/south-korea-gdp-seen-lower-on-covid-19-uob-202004131044

“We expect the BOK to slash its 2020 growth forecast of 2.1% at its next outlook review. We note that the central bank did not give an updated growth forecast in the accompanying policy statement today. We project South Korea’s GDP to shrink by 1.0% in 2020, the worst since the Asian Financial Crisis when it contracted by 5.1%. We have factored in GDP contraction of -2.0% y/y in 1Q20 which will likely deepen to -3.2% in 2Q20 before some stabilization in the second half of the year. The pandemic developments form the greatest uncertainty in our growth forecast.”

Tourist industry is obviously hurting the most atm.



But true, the better strategy has been to respond fast, keep on top of it with testing, which is what South Korea did and is doing.