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Except it will be impossible to sort out deaths from COVID and deaths due to lockdown measures.
by votepaunchy 6y ago
Except it will be impossible to sort out deaths from COVID and deaths due to lockdown measures.
- bluntfang 6y agoWhy do you think deaths directly from the virus is more important than virus deaths + collateral damage? Are you trying to make the claim that lockdown measures are more destructive than the extremely infectious disease?
- DuskStar 6y agoIt is quite possible for lockdown measures to be more destructive than the disease they seek to prevent. Taken to an extreme, forbidding all human contact to protect against the common cold would be an example of such. And it's definitely worth considering when trying to determine if a lockdown was "worth" it. If you locked down and 10k people died, the lockdown looks a lot worse when 9k of those deaths were due to suicides/"elective" procedures/missed cancer/etc. Especially if only 20k deaths were expected from the disease if there was no lockdown at all...