It's a difficult decision to make for the leader of any country. Right now, Indonesia's leader is facing this very difficult decision.
https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/04/06/avoiding-quarantine-will-inflict-greater-economic-harm-survey.html
https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/04/06/avoiding-quarantine-will-inflict-greater-economic-harm-survey.html
Quarantine means stopping almost all economic activities and that will bring great losses and hardship for the citizens. On the other hand, the continuous spread of disease is most likely to bring even greater losses.
What happened to the Spanish flu? How did it end?
Leaders of countries may be hoping for a similar end to the current coronavirus. The Spanish flu which killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide or about 3% of the population at that time, started in January 1818 and ended three years later in December 2020.
However, by the end of 1918, cases had dropped sharply to almost zero. The leaders of every country are now hoping for that to happen to the current coronavirus, too.
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