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Right, but my point is that it's hard to separate those things if your idea is just "excess deaths tell us the cost". So if lockdowns slow COVID but increase su
by fastball 5y ago
Right, but my point is that it's hard to separate those things if your idea is just "excess deaths tell us the cost". So if lockdowns slow COVID but increase suicides... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- andrei_says_ 5y agoI know it’s easy to be a bit cynical once we take an abstract view. Please let’s remember it is not a simple lever. Let’s remember the overflowing ICUs and morgues and the very very limited menu of possible immediate actions - all this amongst unprecedented scrutiny, politicization and division. We’re human. We’re doing the best we can. Lockdowns do flatten the curve.