COVID caution can be a win for both public health and business

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Opinion: It's been shown time and time again that controlling disease transmission leads to better economic outcomes, writes Hassan Vally

One of the ways in which our world has changed in a lasting way as a result of the pandemic is how we work. For many of us the pandemic has transformed this aspect of our lives.

These interventions collectively played a crucial role of dampening virus transmission and keeping us safe when the only tools in our toolkit for combating virus transmission were pretty rudimentary and were based on the principle that the less we mixed, the less opportunity there was for the virus to spread.

If there was one myth that was categorically smashed during the pandemic, it was that the belief that you couldn’t have one without the other. In fact, it has been shown time and time again that controlling disease transmission leads to better economic outcomes.

 

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Where is the evidence? The inflation is all time high and people still spending which will push RBA to raise interest rate again. How do you explain that anomaly in your thesis?

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