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Geezer wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 2:18 pm almost 8,000 new cases so far today and another 114 dead

imzcount wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 2:40 pm

Geezer wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 2:18 pm almost 8,000 new cases so far today and another 114 dead

So, basically less than flu.

Yawn. Getting around has never been easier!

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.

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.

zsn wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 3:28 pm Oh the irony........someone called "Americans for Limited Government" wants the Government to............ahhhhh f#*&^%#*&^$-it.......never mind

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.

Feral wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 1:58 pm

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 12:58 pm

jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 10:08 am

A smart path for establishing when we can go back to work is tying it to declining death rates (whether measured directly, or whether by days-to-doubled).

Sure 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.

Psych, you sound like the voice of lockdown experience.

But even a lockdown isn't a guarantee.