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Is that to say it's better to be dead than unemployed? Not meaning to be glib nor overly dramatic. But I thought the whole point is that flattening the curve
by asveikau 7y ago
Is that to say it's better to be dead than unemployed?
Not meaning to be glib nor overly dramatic. But I thought the whole point is that flattening the curve eases load on hospitals meaning they turn away fewer people, and thus more of them survive. So the question you are asking is: how much is preventable loss of life worth?
- zulgan 7y agodeath will follow either way, like 2008 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/25/financial-crisis-caused-500000-extra-cancer-death-according-to-l/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/25/financial-crisis... https://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f5239 https://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f5239 https://www.forbes.com/sites/melaniehaiken/2014/06/12/more-than-10000-suicides-tied-to-economic-crisis-study-says/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/melaniehaiken/2014/06/12/more-t... damned if we do, damned if we don't
- hervature 7y agoThere have been studies showing that unemployment directly increases mortality here is just one [0]. [0] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1448606/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1448606/
- asveikau 7y agoThat's interesting, sad, and makes intuitive sense. But I'm not sure we can take it back and say "we need to allow more people to die from coronavirus so that fewer die from unemployment". Ideally we would want to minimize both.
- nitrogen 7y agoOne day when we have the benefit of hindsight someone will do an analysis on the quality-adjusted life years gained and lost by the different responses to this.