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What doctors are finding out about the damage done to younger people who survive a serious brush with COVID is not reassuring. And the problems they experience

by rrmm 6y ago

What doctors are finding out about the damage done to younger people who survive a serious brush with COVID is not reassuring. And the problems they experience will have an impact economically going forward.

momokoko 6y ago
This is a false narrative about serious issues with young people designed with the good intention to convince younger people to take precautions and not infect those at higher risk. It’s not actually a real problem outside of extreme outliers.
- rrmm 6y ago
  Well yeah, besides the people it happens to, it doesn't happen at all.
redis_mlc 6y ago
> younger people who survive a serious brush with COVID only a small percentage get seriously ill, less than 5% across all age groups, with much less in the younger groups > And the problems they experience will have an impact economically going forward. The US economy at large is/has been destroyed, with up to half of the layoffs likely being permanent job losses. Europe has avoided mass layoffs, but the US is throwing tens of millions of its citizens under a bus. Lockdown has to end in weeks, not months.
- rrmm 6y ago
  Europe has way better social safety net and labor rules. The way to have done this was to have a swift, effective response to the virus. We missed that. Now we are suffering the consequences. Other places did better and are not having to make as stark a choice.
- redler 6y ago
  To the extent Europe has avoided American-style mass layoffs, it's been through direct and indirect government funding of continued employment. Businesses and employees are being kept warm — they're in the cache. In the US, this is anathema to the ruling party, so even trillion-dollar nominal relief legislation is structured to channel money with little oversight primarily to corporations, and erect preferential barriers to relief reaching states, local governments, and citizens' pockets. There is more concern in the US ruling party over the "moral hazard" of a fast-food worker in a big city on the edge of poverty receiving unemployment that exceeds their $8 per hour salary, than there is over shell companies thrown together in a week receiving $55M no-bid contracts to resell PPE seized by the federal government from the states [1]. [1] See Blue Flame Medical, Oren-Pines, Panthera, et al.

by rrmm 6y ago

momokoko 6y ago

This is a false narrative about serious issues with young people designed with the good intention to convince younger people to take precautions and not infect those at higher risk. It’s not actually a real problem outside of extreme outliers.

rrmm 6y ago
Well yeah, besides the people it happens to, it doesn't happen at all.

redis_mlc 6y ago

> younger people who survive a serious brush with COVID only a small percentage get seriously ill, less than 5% across all age groups, with much less in the younger groups > And the problems they experience will have an impact economically going forward. The US economy at large is/has been destroyed, with up to half of the layoffs likely being permanent job losses. Europe has avoided mass layoffs, but the US is throwing tens of millions of its citizens under a bus. Lockdown has to end in weeks, not months.

rrmm 6y ago
Europe has way better social safety net and labor rules. The way to have done this was to have a swift, effective response to the virus. We missed that. Now we are suffering the consequences. Other places did better and are not having to make as stark a choice.
redler 6y ago
To the extent Europe has avoided American-style mass layoffs, it's been through direct and indirect government funding of continued employment. Businesses and employees are being kept warm — they're in the cache. In the US, this is anathema to the ruling party, so even trillion-dollar nominal relief legislation is structured to channel money with little oversight primarily to corporations, and erect preferential barriers to relief reaching states, local governments, and citizens' pockets. There is more concern in the US ruling party over the "moral hazard" of a fast-food worker in a big city on the edge of poverty receiving unemployment that exceeds their $8 per hour salary, than there is over shell companies thrown together in a week receiving $55M no-bid contracts to resell PPE seized by the federal government from the states [1]. [1] See Blue Flame Medical, Oren-Pines, Panthera, et al.