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"(particularly since lives saved keeping the highways closed alone meets or exceeds lives saved from COVID)" Where are you getting that figure? Wikipedia lists
by noahys 6y ago
"(particularly since lives saved keeping the highways closed alone meets or exceeds lives saved from COVID)"
Where are you getting that figure? Wikipedia lists 40k US deaths from all traffic-related causes in 2018 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate#List https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...), but 200k+ from 8 months of COVID?
- erulabs 6y agoYou're correct, but I meant - lives saved due to lock-down. If the lock-down meant 0 people died from COVID, then you're totally correct. Was slightly hyperbolic I suppose :)
- cameldrv 6y agoHowever you're making the assumption that lives saved by the lockdown < lives lost even with the lockdown. If the lockdown had prevented all deaths from COVID, you'd be using this logic to say it was completely worthless. By this logic, the more effective the lockdown is, the more you argue how unnecessary it is.
- fwip 6y agoWithout lockdown, we'd be counting US deaths in millions.
- mensetmanusman 6y agoNot sure why you are being down voted, models did show 2 million deaths in the US by now.
- asdfadsfgfdda 6y agoYou could argue that traffic fatalities tend to be younger victims, at least compared to COVID victims. So the number of life-years might be a better comparison. But this still doesn't resolve fundamental questions, like how much "disability" does a young person experience in lockdown? Or how much suffering does an older COVID victim experience? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability-adjusted_life_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability-adjusted_life_year