The death rate is not as high as people think, because far more people have the virus than the number of people who have been tested. We are lucky this is not

The death rate is not as high as people think, because far more people have the virus than the number of people who have been tested. We are lucky this is not a super deadly virus, because I don’t think we would have handled it any better. Based on last week’s numbers, unemployment claims are up almost 10x compared to the normal level. That is one indicator of the damage to the economy. We need to consider that the human suffering caused by the economic shutdown will outweigh the human suffering caused by deaths, and it will last longer too.