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> Seeing that doing nothing will likely lead to lead to millions of deaths, how would the lockdown possibly kill more than that? The lockdown is wasting months
by aianus 7y ago
> Seeing that doing nothing will likely lead to lead to millions of deaths, how would the lockdown possibly kill more than that?
The lockdown is wasting months to years of billions of people's lives. That has to be equivalent to some number of deaths, hard to quantify how many, but it's greater than zero.
Also, a bad economy literally kills people by starvation albeit in foreign, poor countries that don't have food surpluses or the ability to print USD.
- bigbob2 7y agoIt is seemingly easy to (roughly) quantify the number of deaths which have occurred as a result of COVID-19, and it is certainly greater than zero. It would seemingly be difficult or impossible to quantify the number of deaths which have occurred as a result of social distancing policies (aka "lockdown"). For that reason alone the certainty of a COVID-19 threat seems greater than the certainty of death by economy.