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> A significant number of people won't get back to life as usual, because they'll be dead, or have one of the sets of long term symptoms. People keep parroting
by just-juan-post 6y ago
> A significant number of people won't get back to life as usual, because they'll be dead, or have one of the sets of long term symptoms.
People keep parroting this out of fear.
Go ahead and take your best guess about the percentage of people that this will happen to. Are you ok with lockdowns to save .001% of the population from this? I've asked questions like this before but never received a response. Any type of real debate is simple ignored and downvoted. All emotions, never any debate.
Fear brings more upvotes than facts. A scary story will get 100+ upvotes but this story only got 7:
Lungs damaged by coronavirus can repair themselves in three months (telegraph.co.uk)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/09/06/lungs-damaged-coronavirus-can-repair-three-months/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/09/06/lungs-damaged-co...
The online fear factory is similar to the old school media fear factor but the online one is self perpetuating.
- pedrocr 6y ago> Are you ok with lockdowns to save .001% of the population from this? No. But that's a full 4 orders of magnitude off our best estimates of mortality which are around 1%. Do I support the limited lockdowns we've had, lasting only a few weeks, to allow breaking the exponential growth and not doubling our yearly mortality? Definitely yes.