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New infections isn’t the metric people care about - if young people get sick then there’s little harm. The metric is deaths, and MA is trending with its lowest
by tjs8rj 6y ago
New infections isn’t the metric people care about - if young people get sick then there’s little harm. The metric is deaths, and MA is trending with its lowest new deaths from covid since nearly the beginning of the pandemic
- wffurr 6y ago"little harm" is an anodyne way to talk about people dying and suffering. Maybe not as many, but I sure as hell don't want to take my chances and catch it. Also are you sure about that metric? This chart looks like deaths/day are 2X above summer levels (30 vs 15): https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/10/nation/latest-coronavirus-numbers-massachusetts/?p1=Covid_Widget https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/10/nation/latest-coronav... "Only" 2X deaths per day when cases are 5X per day is an improvement, but I am not rushing to eat indoors or go to a concert or gym. In fact, I am nervous as hell that loosened restrictions are going to increase spread the way they did last fall, and a bunch of people are going to get sick, suffer, and maybe die who wouldn't if we just buckled down for another month or two and got vaccinated.
- wffurr 6y ago"Little harm": https://twitter.com/a_straight_line/status/1371492539451183106 https://twitter.com/a_straight_line/status/13714925394511831...