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> Some / most of them seemingly had little grasp of the the concept of cost / benefit analysis Massive economic impact from social distancing vs massive econom
by __loam 3y ago
> Some / most of them seemingly had little grasp of the the concept of cost / benefit analysis
Massive economic impact from social distancing vs massive economic impact from mass casualties and complete collapse of the healthcare system. Those are your choices lol.
- spookthesunset 3y agoExcept there were no mass casualties and no first world healthcare system collapsed. Covid was not space aids. We knew this within weeks of “two weeks to flatten the curve” and rather than celebrate the models got it wrong, society decided to double down on the insanity.
- __loam 3y agoAt least a million people died in the United States of Covid, and that's probably an underestimate. Imagine if we had done nothing. The healthcare system remained intact because we took public health measures to slow down the spread of the disease.
- jgalt212 3y agoprotecting the young and physicall healthy had zero impact on that number. For the counter argument, you can look at excess deaths in Sweden and some red states (who probably made the right decision for the wrong reason--just do the opposite of what the progressives want).