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Absolutely. I suspect that 8 months or so we just accept dead people.

• dathinab 7y ago
  Believe me this won't take 8 month. Especially given that in many areas the live of "old" people and "mid/young" people got sadly somewhat decoupled in the recent 30 or so years.
  • airstrike 7y ago
    The young which require hospitalization have a real chance to die if left untreated. There aren't enough beds to treat everyone if 80% of people get sick.
    • Bombthecat 7y ago
      Downvotes wont change the fact that mass psychology is at play. Not invidual psychology, like people in jail. Those are two different things! Most people think they are the same, but they are not. Nonetheless,thats why i wrote, soon or later we accept the dead people as part of doing "business"
      • airstrike 7y ago
        You're way off base. We're not going to "accept" the risk of dying tomorrow any more than we do today. This isn't about old people dying. It's about 40-80% getting infected, 17-20% needing hospitalization and there not being enough beds. Simple as that.
• rootusrootus 7y ago
  I'm betting it will happen far sooner than 8 months. Just watching the public polls, there is already plenty of evidence to suggest people are making that calculation already. The cold truth -- if the bodies that keep stacking up are nearly all 80+ years old, as it seems to be now, then people of working age aren't going to tolerate a forced quarantine all that long. If gov't tries to force the issue, they may only succeed in demonstrating the limits of gov't power.