So, basically less than flu.
Yawn. Getting around has never been easier!
I wasn't there, but it isn't hard to imagine....in the first few weeks of WW1....some folks said "this isn't so bad" or, "this seriously hasn't even killed many people"
Economists led by Northwestern University’s Martin Eichenbaum wrote that keeping social-distancing measures in place before the number of new virus cases declines -- in other words, before a peak in the infection rate -- could limit infections and prevent as many as 600,000 additional U.S. deaths.
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“There is an inevitable trade-off between the severity of the recession and the health consequences of the epidemic,” the economists wrote in a working paper distributed this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Under a worst-case scenario, with stores remaining open and no social isolation policies, as many as 215 million Americans could become infected and 2.2 million could die from the spread of the virus, the economists’ data shows.
The choice is between:jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 3:23 pm Economic Shutdown Is Estimated to Save 600,000 American Lives
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ican-lives
Economists led by Northwestern University’s Martin Eichenbaum wrote that keeping social-distancing measures in place before the number of new virus cases declines -- in other words, before a peak in the infection rate -- could limit infections and prevent as many as 600,000 additional U.S. deaths.
[...]
“There is an inevitable trade-off between the severity of the recession and the health consequences of the epidemic,” the economists wrote in a working paper distributed this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Under a worst-case scenario, with stores remaining open and no social isolation policies, as many as 215 million Americans could become infected and 2.2 million could die from the spread of the virus, the economists’ data shows.
^^^
seriously?DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 2:00 pm Ah, yes. Brandy Lee.
Who has made a mint violating professional norms and standards.
In order to get the guy whose greatest crime is violating norms and standards.
She's right, though, about this episode exposing psychiatric illnesses.
Just not sure she has the right patient.
Not sure why you're attacking me personally for sharing my opinion, but if it makes you feel better, attack away.Feral wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 1:58 pmPsych, you sound like the voice of lockdown experience.HouseDivided wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 12:58 pmSure they work. They also destroy mental health and there will be no economy to come back to. Seems like there's gotta be a reasonable middle ground somewhere.
But even a lockdown isn't a guarantee.