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I'm in the camp that a disease that has 80,000 people dead is not a hyperbolic thing to be afraid of. I have a good friend who is a nurse who still doesn't have

I'm in the camp that a disease that has 80,000 people dead is not a hyperbolic thing to be afraid of. I have a good friend who is a nurse who still doesn't have enough PPE to protect herself, gets tested constantly and has colleagues who are in the ICU right now. I also agree with you that its probably a lot more prevalent. We already know that its possible to have no symptoms. But that doesn't take away that for many people it is actually a horrible virus that has killed huge amounts of people and we have no idea how prevalent it actually is because we can't do community testing yet. If you're wrong many more people die.

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umvi 7y ago
> If you're wrong many more people die. Can we stop the subtle browbeating please? People are going to die either way that normally would not have died.
- taurath 7y ago
  I'm honestly not sure how to say it. What we do about the pandemic determines whether people live or die. I'm not at all trying to intimidate the person - I'm just reminding that the stakes here are pretty high and any direction we go (continued lockdown, gradual opening, sudden opening) has an effect on how many people will ultimately die. Not even to say that human life is that sacred - almost any society if they're honest clearly don't act according to that principle. The parent poster said that government is overreacting to the problem and that he's not met anyone who's scared, and then said fear over early reopening causing a 2nd wave is hyperbolic. This is a lot of people that are already dead - I'm making a rhetorical argument that its absolutely not hyperbolic to consider the possibility that the cases and deaths could ramp upwards sharply.