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Short term results only. We don't know yet about long term results (for the economy, for global poverty, for people mental healths, for extra deaths of cancer,
by lightgreen 6y ago
Short term results only. We don't know yet about long term results (for the economy, for global poverty, for people mental healths, for extra deaths of cancer, for obesity people getting spending time at home, and so on).
- c0nducktr 6y agoFor extra deaths of cancer?
- lightgreen 6y agoYes, coronavirus safety driven restrictions sometimes lead to hospitals lesser ability to handle common diseases like cancer. This is the story from the UK, something like this might happen everywhere: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8848991/Dead-31-chemo-paused-Covid-Cancer-sufferers-fighting-lives.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8848991/Dead-31-che...
- iso947 6y agoUK didn’t deal well with covid NZ hospitals have been fine.
- lightgreen 6y ago> NZ hospitals have been fine. So every organisation from kindergartens to factories was affected by coronavirus, but hospitals were not affected at all? I don't believe so.
- patagurbon 6y agoShort term results of hundreds of thousands dead... I'm not sure excess cancer deaths would ever eclipse that.
- lostlogin 6y agoNZ has has 1/8900 of the US death toll. We have 1/66th the US population. It’s hard to argue that our response is going to cause more deaths than the US response. It almost feels like cheating to compare NZ to USA where covid is concerned.