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Lockdowns aren't preventing it, they're delaying it. 50 million deaths in the USA is utter nonesense. There's plenty of disagreement between epidemologists as
by concordDance 7y ago
Lockdowns aren't preventing it, they're delaying it.
50 million deaths in the USA is utter nonesense.
There's plenty of disagreement between epidemologists as to the costs of lockdowns and exit strategies.
- haakonhr 7y agoUS isn't the only country in the world
- concordDance 7y agoGiven the grandparent was in a thread on a US company in California I assumed a US context.
- goatlover 7y agoI compared it to 1918 Influenza's global death count/estimate. 50 million people worldwide is a lot, even with the 7.8 billion we have. And 2 million US deaths would be a lot as well. I think it's worth some inconvenience and economic slowdown to prevent millions of deaths.
- concordDance 7y agoDepends how big the "inconvenience" and slowdown is (both economic losses and isolation and routine disruption cause death and quality of life decreases). Poverty is on average much much worse than covid19 for life expectancy (though there are a lot of caveats here). This isn't a taboo trade-off, both sides of the trade-off contain things we really don't want to sacrifice.