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See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22751269 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22751269 for a cost benefit analysis. Long story short, it is worth it.
by btilly 7y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22751269 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22751269 for a cost benefit analysis.
Long story short, it is worth it.
- DuskStar 7y agoAs with iso1631 there, I disagree. The lockdown will only save significant numbers of lives if it lasts until we have a way to reduce population death rates (either via better treatment, prophylactics, or vaccines) OR if we can exterminate it entirely and prevent COVID-19 from becoming endemic to the US again. I think the latter is unlikely, and the former requires 6+months of lockdown. If we do three months of lockdown and then people give up and head out as normal again, we've burned a few trillion dollars, and a hundred million years of US citizen lives, for nothing. The deaths still come, just shifted back three months. That's the worst case, and it's what we might be heading for.
- ceejayoz 7y agoIt should be entirely possible to ramp up masks and ventilators in a couple months. China is already making immense amounts. Universal mask wearing would go a long way, especially with a much lower baseline of active infections.