[deanhills]

killing the economy and making everybody weak and gradually killing more of them in the end is not prudent.

You may be right @rudra.  I've been thinking about this a lot lately, particularly since the lockdown in South Africa has been extended by a further two weeks.  In principal I'm supportive of the stay at home lockdown as it obviously worked for other countries.  But South Africa is a high crime country - like brutal crime.  So now they've worked out that possibly 1-million jobs are going to be lost as a result of the lockdown (on top of the huge unemployment number there already was), and those people and families dependent on the wages of course will be destitute.  I wonder how this is going to create a spike in crime once the lockdown is lifted.  And how the number of murders as a result of the unemployment emanating from the lockdown are going to compare with the numbers who would have died of the Corona Virus if there had been no lockdown and just proper social distancing etc.

Looks like dying of the Corona Virus is a greater cause to go for drastic measures, compared with murders in huge numbers, burning schools down and basic violence, lawlessness and corruption.

Not that I'm underestimating the Corona Virus.  I'm following the lock down rules.  I'm just wondering about the permanent damage this is going to cause and how the end result is going to compare if there had been no lockdown.  Like the big picture comparison of a few years projection.