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Well, that, plus people will get sick and die

• TheOtherHobbes 6y ago
  If no lockdown happened, critical workers would have become sick and/or died, critical systems would have started failing - temporarily, but it's still not a good look when there's panic buying and no food in the stores - and a significant number of people would have stayed at home anyway. Plus bodies. So many bodies. They would have skewed older, but it's completely wrong to say this is a disease of the over-70s. There are a lot of people of working age who barely survived infection and now have semi-permanent or possibly permanent - no one knows yet - lung damage. The idea that we could have somehow managed this without any economic damage is pure fantasy. It has no absolutely foundation in reality.
  • DuskStar 6y ago
    It may be wrong to say this is a disease of the over-70s, but it's not wrong to say that it's a killer of over-70s and the sick. Most critical workers are not over 70, and most do not have long-term health issues. So yes, there was always going to be economic damage. But that doesn't meant there would have been nearly this much.
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