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Not everything can be measured in deaths. For every one dead in the US, there are 500~ who lost a job. One death is a tragedy but what about those 30 million fa

Not everything can be measured in deaths. For every one dead in the US, there are 500~ who lost a job. One death is a tragedy but what about those 30 million families now that have a breadwinner out of work? This virus is clearly not the plague that it was projected to be. Why are we destroying the economy and the lives of millions of young Americans just so that the few at risk people can live 3 months longer?

m0llusk 6y ago
In particular the recent increase in deaths in Sweden is not merely some numbers but a particular phenomenon: The most vulnerable are elderly with health problems. These people are clustered in care centers. For them to remain safe they would have to be isolated from the general population, but unfortunately there have been many clusters of infections in facilities where sick elderly are concentrated. How this latest rise in deaths might have been prevented is a different conversation than the more broad issue of how the rest of society should react.
- yeetman21 6y ago
  I dont know why the at risk group cant just self quarantine themselves since it is clear that it is not that big of a deal if normal people get it
  - macintux 6y ago
    “normal” people like doctors and nurses who are dying from the disease? That’s among the many problems with this attitude. At what point do we stop treating healthcare workers as cannon fodder? Besides which, that ignores the fact that strokes from the disease are killing people of all ages. And that we don’t know the long-term impact on the health of victims yet.
    - m0llusk 6y ago
      Health care workers get unusually high levels of exposure, so they are kind of a special case. If you look carefully at the whole numbers the average COVID-19 victim is over 80 and has at least one major chronic health problem already. It makes sense to focus mitigation efforts on this group.

m0llusk 6y ago

In particular the recent increase in deaths in Sweden is not merely some numbers but a particular phenomenon: The most vulnerable are elderly with health problems. These people are clustered in care centers. For them to remain safe they would have to be isolated from the general population, but unfortunately there have been many clusters of infections in facilities where sick elderly are concentrated. How this latest rise in deaths might have been prevented is a different conversation than the more broad issue of how the rest of society should react.

yeetman21 6y ago
I dont know why the at risk group cant just self quarantine themselves since it is clear that it is not that big of a deal if normal people get it
- macintux 6y ago
  “normal” people like doctors and nurses who are dying from the disease? That’s among the many problems with this attitude. At what point do we stop treating healthcare workers as cannon fodder? Besides which, that ignores the fact that strokes from the disease are killing people of all ages. And that we don’t know the long-term impact on the health of victims yet.
  - m0llusk 6y ago
    Health care workers get unusually high levels of exposure, so they are kind of a special case. If you look carefully at the whole numbers the average COVID-19 victim is over 80 and has at least one major chronic health problem already. It makes sense to focus mitigation efforts on this group.