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>The death rate has massively spiked beginning May 24th So it's all right for deaths to spike if the hospitals don't expend their resources dealing with it? W
by eli_gottlieb 6y ago
>The death rate has massively spiked beginning May 24th
So it's all right for deaths to spike if the hospitals don't expend their resources dealing with it? What are the hospitals for, then?
- chrisco255 6y agoYeah we can't live in bubbles forever. 40 million people are unemployed in the U.S. now and counting. Millions of livelihoods are being destroyed, suicides are up, deaths for untreated non-Covid diseases are up, and if we want to avoid the complete breakdown of civilization we need to get back to work.
- eli_gottlieb 6y agoBut that's not the choice facing us. An exponential spike in deaths is quite a different thing from a linear one!
- maxerickson 6y agoThe government orders aren't the only thing impacting the economy. Figuring out how to mitigate the virus, and thus making people feel more confident about economic activity, is what the economy needs. Like good luck with it, but if 95% of Americans started wearing masks in the next couple of weeks, it's pretty clear that this would be a big boost to the economy over the next 6 months. But we don't do group oriented statistical mitigations here.