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All much milder than post covid complications or death. None put as much pressure on public health systems.

• nradov 5y ago
  For most people the social isolation is a greater risk than COVID-19.
  • selfsimilar 5y ago
    I’d love to see any statistics to support that claim. Anecdotally I disagree with that risk assessment but I don’t have any hard data on the risk(s) associated with social isolation.
  • Loughla 5y ago
    "Most" is a very strong word to use in this situation. How do you back that up? Demographic data? Psychological profiles of those demographics? Or just because you want it to be true?
  • tambourine_man 5y ago
    A country severely affected by covid like Brazil has seen its population decline for the first time ever since the Portuguese set foot. People were asphyxiating to death in Manaus because hospitals couldn't meet the oxygen tanks' demand with patients coming in hordes. It’s that bad. The amount of people that committed suicide due to depression induced by isolation is several orders of magnitude less. It’s sad and scary that we still have to have this conversations in well educated forums like HN one and a half years in this pandemic.
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