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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Half the people want the world to open back up, open camps, open pools, open schools in the fall. Other half wants to not do play dates, not open school, not open anything.

Which camp are you in?

I want parks to be open. I want our pool and tennis courts to open. I want to do play dates.

I threw out having a friend over for s’mores and she asked if the neighbors would call the cops.[/quote]

And if you and your kids get the virus then you forego medical care?  Also, all the other people who pal around with you?  [/quote]

Should we not treat lung cancer patients that are smokers because “they did this to themselves”? What about the obese suffering from heart disease? Gimme a break! After more than 6 weeks of lockdown, it’s time to resume some normalcy. All of what she is suggesting is low risk.  Are we all going to continue to try and live no-risk lives until there is a vaccine? We will all be broke and crazy long before then. [/quote]

THis is a communicable disease--very different.  Go to school, get an MPH or an MD, and then come rant about your armchair epidemiology skills[/quote]

I think what PP means is that with every policy, policy makers have to do a cost benefit analysis to decide. There was an article a while back that was discussing just this. Since 40,000 people die from car accidents every year in the US should we limit speed to 5 miles per hour? The way policy makers decide about this is: 1) they give a value to lives lost ($1 or 10,000,000 for example) and they estimate the costs of such policy. In the case of speed limit, costs outweigh the benefits so we prefer to have 40,000 dead from traffic accidents instead of limiting the speed to 5 miles per hour.
I am sure policy makers are doing the same about COVID restrictions. Like it or not the VSL (value of a statistical life) is something policy makers think about all the time. It may very well be that soon the damage to the economy is greater than the lives lost and everything will reopen... we just don’t know[/quote]

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