3 ms·
Maybe fewer have died of covid because of lockdown?
by Klinky 6y ago
Maybe fewer have died of covid because of lockdown?
- username90 6y agoSweden didn't close schools, 1 person under 20 has died out of about 2 million.
- vkou 6y agoHow many people do people under 20 infect? How many of those secondary infections die? How many of them stay sick for months? There was a case right before schools opened in Georgia, I believe, of a kid who caught COVID at football practice. He's fine, but both of his parents died in a week. Fortunately, he now no longer needs to worry about COVID. Unfortunately, he's now an orphan.
- jtbayly 6y agoAnd he's still proof that "few children get sick" from this.
- Klinky 6y agoChildren get sick, few have got sick enough to have died from it.
- vkou 6y agoI did not realize that the sole metric that our society should optimize for, to the exclusion of all else is 'how many children get sick and die from COVID'. (It's a very convenient optimization metric, though, because it requires us to do quite literally nothing.)
- username90 6y agoLots of people argue that children aren't dying because they were more locked down. For example the person I responded to. That is wrong, children aren't dying since covid doesn't hit them very hard. Children being vectors infecting others wasn't a part of this discussion.