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> because we'd all be incapacitated from COVID Source?

• astrange 5y ago
  Should be “due to” including economic effects. Ask someone in NYC how they liked living through it.
  • nradov 5y ago
    The bad economic effects were mostly caused by drastic, irrational government overreactions to the disease.
    • astrange 5y ago
      No, they were caused by people not wanting to go to restaurants or travel when they were constantly hearing ambulance sirens outside their window. Also, if your grandparents are dead or you don't want your children exposed you're still incapacitated (via depression, providing childcare, etc) even if personally safe. Hong Kong is currently providing an example of what happens when you keep society running (via incoming travel bans) so well that nobody bothers getting vaccinated for when it does break through. But since that's omicron, which is a bit milder, they're still doing better than we would've done.
      • nradov 5y ago
        We would have done better if we had followed the science and protected the most vulnerable people as per the Great Barrington Declaration. https://gbdeclaration.org/ https://gbdeclaration.org/ CDC data shows that exposure was never a serious risk for children. COVID-19 is less dangerous to children than RSV, and we never shut down society because of RSV. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd... https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2021/han00443.asp https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2021/han00443.asp