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The estimates place 5-10k people died from suicide alone due to the 2008 recession. Others claim at least 10x that due to lack of health insurance and subsequen
by atomicUpdate 7y ago
The estimates place 5-10k people died from suicide alone due to the 2008 recession. Others claim at least 10x that due to lack of health insurance and subsequent health care, so missed cancer diagnoses, treatment, etc.
I would not be surprised if the death toll from the ensuing recession is higher than from covid deaths. That begs the obvious question, since covid kills mostly old people, but the recession kills mostly young, which is better?
- the8472 7y ago> so missed cancer diagnoses, treatment, etc. Overloaded hospitals due to covid would also cause secondary deaths.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoThe virus seems to be causing potentially life-long lung damage in many more cases that it kills. On top of that, a saturated healthcare system is not providing treatment for anyone with anything that's less survivable than a Covid-19 in a relatively young and otherwise healthy person.
- alexis_fr 7y agoItaly has stopped providing respirators for 60+ year old people. They let them die. They give priority to the younger. Source in English: https://twitter.com/damienrieu/status/1238759988329418752 https://twitter.com/damienrieu/status/1238759988329418752
- travisporter 7y agoThis is absolute speculation. How can 100,000 people dying over a course of 3-5 years be linked to the recession? Ignoring that, the number will be higher than 100,000 if per the CDC nearly all Americans will be exposed
- JamesBarney 7y agoThat 10,000 number looks like it was a combined u.s. plus europe. If we let covid-19 run rampant through the u.s. and Europe we're talking about one to several million deaths. And 100k seems high for 2 some odd million people losing health insurance for a couple of years.