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> when you do the math on mortality due to suicide and overdose it’s not clear that containment would even save more lives in the long run. I'm waiting for peo
by nostromo 7y ago
> when you do the math on mortality due to suicide and overdose it’s not clear that containment would even save more lives in the long run.
I'm waiting for people to do the analysis of mass unemployment from lockdown leading to people losing their healthcare, just in time for the pandemic to widen or return this summer or fall.
You're exactly right to consider all of the externalities of our current approach.
- __blockcipher__ 7y agoI hadn't thought of it specifically in terms of our broken employer-based healthcare system. That's a really good point. I quit my job Feb 7, before all this unfolded. And COBRA costs me $612.54 per month. For the same reason I was able to quit my job, I will be totally fine. I have over 5 years of living expenses in liquid assets, so I will be fine. But for someone who was living paycheck to paycheck and lost their job because it's not the type of job that can work from home, how the hell could they possible afford healthcare? Along those lines, I do really think that part of the reason so many people don't see the harm in locking down for the next several months is because, like me, they work in the tech industry and really have not been affected by this as far as employment goes.
- guscost 7y agohttps://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/21/behind-protests-two-americas-one-unemployed-and-one-gets-paychecks-column/5167453002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/21/behind-pro...