Saving the old amid the pandemic

Achieving herd immunity requires 60 per cent-70 per cent of the population to have had the disease—and with this particular coronavirus, about one or two percent of those people will die.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau, pictured with outgoing Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz, has, along with cabinet colleagues, has helped roll out a series of relief measures aimed at cushioning the blow of the pandemic.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

March 30, 2020

LONDON, U.K.—The basic choice all along with COVID-19 has been: do we let the old die, or do we take a big hit economically? So far, the decision almost everywhere has been to take the hit and save the old (or most of them), but in some places it has been a very nea...

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