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It is not a scientific conclusion, but a policy statement that takes into account the best science that we can get at this moment, and then defines what should
by somewhereoutth 6y ago
It is not a scientific conclusion, but a policy statement that takes into account the best science that we can get at this moment, and then defines what should be done to minimise the damage this virus will cause.
At its heart is the understanding that controlling the virus is the single most important thing right now - that this is a total war. This policy can only work, however, in societies with effective governance and a strong social fabric.
- guscost 6y ago> At its heart is the understanding that controlling the virus is the single most important thing right now You misspelled “belief”.
- somewhereoutth 6y agoApparently this is killing 1000 Americans a day?? I'm not sure what your threshold is...
- guscost 6y agoThis stuff is difficult to talk about because most people are not used to clinical reasoning about health outcomes. There are essentially priorities to balance between the COVID group and the other 8000 dying every day. And between the extra people dying right now and the extra people who will die ten years from now, and so on. There’s no way to just point to some “threshold” where you wouldn’t still have to make triage decisions all the time.