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And then some people (myself included) factor in externalities and realize more deaths have occurred because of the lockdowns (depression, lack of medical care,

And then some people (myself included) factor in externalities and realize more deaths have occurred because of the lockdowns (depression, lack of medical care, malnutrition, homelessness). Some of us are even more concerned with human lives than looking at the small picture of only the benefits of lockdown.

p1necone 6y ago
Please show your working.
bawolff 6y ago
Wait, so is malnutrition because people dont know how to feed themselves without help and so just starve during lockdown?
- 8note 6y ago
  Generally Americans are unable to afford food for their children, so they rely on public schools to feed them. Without the school, the children go hungry
  - bawolff 6y ago
    Well that's fucked up, but to what extent does that apply to Ontario?
gregoryl 6y ago
Suicide rate has dropped. Homeless people have been placed into accommodation (and is apparently proving to be cheaper than the previous services provided). Medical care is fully available? Malnutrition??
- p1necone 6y ago
  Funnily if we embraced this "pretend there isn't a pandemic and do whatever we want" plan these people seem to be advocating hospitals would likely be so inundated with covid patients that there wouldn't be capacity for much other medical care. (Note that this isn't a hypothetical - we have real world examples - see New York a few months ago, or Spain.)
- T-hawk 6y ago
  Medical care is not fully available. Canada now has a backlog of cancer screenings estimated to last over a year to resolve. Thousands of these people will die from cancer thanks to trying to "save" them from Covid.
- logicchains 6y ago
  >Malnutrition?? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-children-un-idUSKBN21Y2X7 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-childr...