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At What Point Does The Economy Take Precdence?
Young people and new that otherwise healthy people in their 20s, 30s and 40s are succumbing is being reported because it's exceptional. They are the exception that proves the rule.
The fact is the vast vast majority of people will survive, some of whom may well only have mild symptoms, so (and I fully accept this is going to annoy people - and unlike many on on AB I'm not an expert!) at what point do we learn to accept the losses, get people out of the lockdown and focus on the economy?
If the lockdown continues for too long, if as a result of the lockdown people remain furloughed, and if companies start to go to the wall, at some point surely we need to run the risk and end the lockdown.
Frankly, if the economy becomes becomes fubarred, the issues people are currently facing will pale in comparison.
The fact is the vast vast majority of people will survive, some of whom may well only have mild symptoms, so (and I fully accept this is going to annoy people - and unlike many on on AB I'm not an expert!) at what point do we learn to accept the losses, get people out of the lockdown and focus on the economy?
If the lockdown continues for too long, if as a result of the lockdown people remain furloughed, and if companies start to go to the wall, at some point surely we need to run the risk and end the lockdown.
Frankly, if the economy becomes becomes fubarred, the issues people are currently facing will pale in comparison.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The problem with looking at things that way is that 1% of a great many people is far more threatening than 50% of nobody much. The Ebola outbreak of 2014 accounted for the deaths of something like 40% of all the infected, but as there ended up being only about 30,000 infected it becomes rather less intimidating. And the other thing is that a deadly virus struggles to spread too far almost because of how deadly it is. When there are a lot of people who don't really suffer much then they find themselves free to travel and spread it further, so that the vulnerable are that much more likely to catch it and die as a result.
I'm also not entirely in agreement with the suggestion that because many of the victims appear to have underlying issues that somehow brings the rate down. There's no reason to assume that those people would have died any time soon, for one thing; or, in the entirely opposite direction, since we are all going to die anyway then you may just as well argue "what does it matter what gets us in the end?" Neither is entirely comforting.
That morbid thought aside, it's also clear that, apart from a few lone holdouts, everyone seems to have more or less accepted that the human cost of allowing Covid to propagate far outweighs the economic threat, for the time being. In the US, Trump was expressing a hope to open the US back up by Easter, but he has since abandoned that as the scale of the disease in the US finally became apparent.
I'm also not entirely in agreement with the suggestion that because many of the victims appear to have underlying issues that somehow brings the rate down. There's no reason to assume that those people would have died any time soon, for one thing; or, in the entirely opposite direction, since we are all going to die anyway then you may just as well argue "what does it matter what gets us in the end?" Neither is entirely comforting.
That morbid thought aside, it's also clear that, apart from a few lone holdouts, everyone seems to have more or less accepted that the human cost of allowing Covid to propagate far outweighs the economic threat, for the time being. In the US, Trump was expressing a hope to open the US back up by Easter, but he has since abandoned that as the scale of the disease in the US finally became apparent.
This is a snapshot of air travel over the US at the moment. If that doesn’t scare you, then nothing should
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jim360 -"I'm also not entirely in agreement with the suggestion that because many of the victims appear to have underlying issues that somehow brings the rate down. There's no reason to assume that those people would have died any time soon, " "
The common flu may have caused those deaths also, but we in this situation because of the coronavirus.
The common flu may have caused those deaths also, but we in this situation because of the coronavirus.
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