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There are a lot of people who got to this point a few months earlier than me. Let's find them en test them.

• threeseed 7y ago
  > Let's find them en test them We have very limited resources which need to be focused on sick/dying people.
  • adventured 7y ago
    That's not necessarily the correct calculation if you want to maximize how many people you save. Italy started intentionally letting people over 60 die, to try to save more people. For their dire circumstances, it was probably the right decision. It might help to save a lot more lives if we understand how many people have already had Covid and what immunity looks like post-infection. Every 1% jump in the unemployment rate kills a large number of people. If we're about to see 20% unemployment in the US, a hundred thousand people or more will die directly from that economic event alone (that's an intentionally conservative number, the routinely taught economics figure would imply upwards of half a million deaths over several years). Getting the economy back to functioning may be just as important as limiting the Covid deaths of the most vulnerable. Understanding the spread of Covid, how many people are asymptomatic, how many have had mild cases, and what immunity looks like, is critical to that process.
    • threeseed 7y ago
      > If we're about to see 20% unemployment in the US, a hundred thousand people or more will die directly from that economic event alone. Provide evidence of this. And in most countries there is a constraint over medical equipment and personnel. Also a person can be asymptomatic and still contagious which means merely testing these people can come at a serious cost.