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of course some population of people will have long term damage, any disease could do that.

• shadowgovt 6y ago
  Most don't; COVID-19 isn't "any disease." It's got both an R0 and a fatality (and, we've come to learn, long-term-injury) rate that are way too high to refrain from taking it seriously.
  • matz1 6y ago
    fatality rate less than 1% is very low. In regards for long term injury, given enough spread any disease could cause long term damage in some of its population. Flu cause long term damage. The damage caused by lockdown is more than covid.
    • shadowgovt 6y ago
      > fatality rate less than 1% is very low If I told you that every day you lived your normal life, you had a 1 in 100 chance of dying, would you take it? How about a 1 in 1,000 chance? That's an expected payoff of about three years before you die, Worth it? The breakeven point is different for different people, but I think even 0.1% chance of death is too high for most. Or flipping the numbers: if 100% of Americans become infected, a disease with a 0.1% fatality rate is about 350,000. That's more people than we lost in World War II.
      • matz1 6y ago
        >If I told you that every day you lived your normal life, you had a 1 in 100 chance of dying, would you take it Of course, in fact that I'm doing right now, i try to lived my normal life as much as i still possibly can. >The breakeven point is different for different people, but I think even 0.1% chance of death is too high for most. There are always some chance of death everyday regardless of covid. Do you think lockdown doesn't case long term damage ? The lockdown and the fear mongering cause more damage than the covid itself. >That's more people than we lost in World War II Sure but we have more people now compare to before.
      • refurb 6y ago
        Sure, and in 2018 we had 80,000 people die of the flu, but that was just expected because it happens every year (flu killing tens of thousands).