Covid 12/24: We’re F***ed, It’s Over

https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/covid-12-24-were-fed-its-over/

by optimalsolver • 6 years ago

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JKCalhoun• 6 years ago

"The media told us it was nothing to worry about, right up until hospitals got overwhelmed and enough people started dying."

What media? I saw plenty of alarm bells being rung in the sites I frequent.

Felony_Fred3• 6 years ago

Maybe we will have to come to accept that a ( big ) bunch of very old people will die a few years earlier than expected so that the rest of us can avoid a greater depression ?

That being said, once we refrain from locking down everything and everyone, we can start expending all of our resources to minimizing the deaths in the at risk groups.

In the end, I believe this approach can result in less deaths than trying to impose ' sanitary measures ' that most people disregard at least to some extent because they make little sense and are downright immoral.

I get from the article that this strain might be more infectious and herd immunity might not be as efficient as it would have been previously, but _all things considered_, it would still be our best option in the scenario where an efficient vaccine is not readily available for that strain / variant.

The deaths due _directly_ to the virus are by no means the only parameter we should pay attention to.

See ;

Great Barrington Declaration ( signed by 12,943 medical and public health scientists )

https://gbdeclaration.org/

Years of potential life lost

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_of_potential_life_lost

COVID-19, unemployment, and suicide

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...

SomeoneFromCA4• 6 years ago

No, we should not accept it. Unless you want to overflow hospitals and you'll have a massive death rate across whole popualtion groups, or you want to keep that thing spreading and mutating. I think this is the younger should accept that a closed latte shop is not a good reason for depression.

gnusty_gnurc• 6 years ago

I think this is the younger should accept that a closed latte shop is not a good reason for depression

Easy for you to say - I'm sure you're comfortable from home working some tech job while you dispatch immigrants on Grubhub to feed you, and they cannot afford to stop working.

You're simplifying this into some imaginary trivialized "closed latte shop" when it's in reality condemning an entire country to miserable poverty and human depression.

Felony_Fred3• 6 years ago

a closed latte shop is not a good reason for depression.

I agree but that's not what I was referring to ->

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression

Covid 12/24: We’re F***ed, It’s Over

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