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With shutdowns, masks, and closed schools, COVID has killed in six months about a quarter of the people who die from the flu in a decade How is that an argumen
by evan_ 6y ago
With shutdowns, masks, and closed schools, COVID has killed in six months about a quarter of the people who die from the flu in a decade
How is that an argument for less-drastic measures?
- _-___________-_ 6y agoThe comparison is fraught with problems due to the lack of immunity for COVID. The "with shutdowns, masks and closed schools" line also assumes the effectiveness of all those measures, and ignores the glaring problem that they simply kick the can down the road -- there is no appetite for shutdowns and closed schools until the end of 2021, but a vaccine could easily take that long (if not longer) to be generally available -- assuming any of the current vaccine candidates work well. So what, exactly, is the plan?