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Dr Katz wrote in the NYT; “I am deeply concerned that the social, economic and public health consequences of this near total meltdown of normal life — schools
by zaroth 7y ago
Dr Katz wrote in the NYT;
“I am deeply concerned that the social, economic and public health consequences of this near total meltdown of normal life — schools and businesses closed, gatherings banned — will be long lasting and calamitous, possibly graver than the direct toll of the virus itself. The stock market will bounce back in time, but many businesses never will. The unemployment, impoverishment and despair likely to result will be public health scourges of the first order.”
Let’s not do social distancing, or even “social distancing lite” at all please. It’s disastrously damaging to public health.
- maxerickson 7y agoThat paragraph doesn't describe social distancing, it describes the government ordering everything closed. But whatever, we can call the thing where we take simple, effective public health measures that do not have grave economic impacts something else. (the irony to me is that reducing the spread of things like flu would have economic benefits, many of which would be concentrated with those that are economically vulnerable)