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You appear to be making the assumption that disease spread would not be different had lockdown not happened. The question isn't cost of lockdown vs cost of dise
by adgjlsfhk1 6y ago
You appear to be making the assumption that disease spread would not be different had lockdown not happened. The question isn't cost of lockdown vs cost of disease with lockdown, it's cost of lockdown vs cost of disease without lockdown. Without a lockdown, April and May would probably have had 10x (at least) more cases, and way more than 10x more deaths because hospitals wouldn't have had the space to hold everyone who was sick.
- username90 6y agoNo country in the world is even close to an order of magnitude worse than USA regardless of what they did, so it isn't a reasonable estimate. Worst case is less than about 2x USA's numbers, I used that as an estimate of how many lives you saved with your measures.
- philosopher1234 6y agoIndia?
- username90 6y agoDoes India have 20k dead per million?