4 ms·
Don't forget the secondary effects of shutting down entire countries: depression, supply chain failures, sudden poverty, degradation of infrastructure, and inc
by TsiCClawOfLight 6y ago
Don't forget the secondary effects of shutting down entire countries: depression, supply chain failures, sudden poverty, degradation of infrastructure, and increasingly lack of exercise and unhealthy eating as this drags on.
I suspect that will account for most of the differential, and possibly even be the more important number. (because many countries diagnose deaths with covid as deaths by covid)
- stOneskull 6y agoThe secondary effects are much worse. The virus is being used as an excuse to get more control of the people and planet by the psychopaths. They don't really care about us.
- seppin 6y agoI don't know why something so easily disproved is being repeated so often. The worst-case of an economic shutdown is not worse than 2 million dead people. Added bonus: the economic outcome of 2 million dead people is bad too, perhaps worse than a shutdown of (largely) healthy people. It's not an either/or, economic hardship right now is unavoidable. The choice is between getting a handle on the virus or not, and thousands dead instead of millions.
- cma 6y agoLater on it may be a major factor, but right now it is probably outweighed in the counts by less car accident deaths, lower transmission of other communicable respiratory diseases, and less work and leisure accidents.