{"id":6947,"date":"2021-01-02T03:41:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T03:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/?p=265365"},"modified":"2021-01-02T03:41:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T03:41:24","slug":"covid-19-sacrificing-lives-does-not-mean-saving-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/02\/covid-19-sacrificing-lives-does-not-mean-saving-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: sacrificing lives does not mean saving the economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/world.masks_.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Covid-19 and economy\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/world.masks_.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/world.masks_-480x300.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>A study of 45 countries shows those who have contained the virus also tend to have less severe economic impacts than those which haven\u2019t. Saving the economy does not mean sacrificing lives, writes Michael Smithson. Containing Covid versus saving the economy is a false dichotomy.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/covid-19-sacrificing-lives-does-not-mean-saving-the-economy\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study of 45 countries shows those who have contained the virus also tend to have less severe economic impacts than those which haven\u2019t. Saving the economy does not mean sacrificing lives, writes Michael Smithson. Containing Covid versus saving the ec&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1876],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6948,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947\/revisions\/6948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}