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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At some point we have to accept we're gonna lose some folks.  Right now we've lost 17 jobs for every case of COVID19.  8000 people die every day in America.  3M per year.  Losing 250K from COVID19 would just be a blip, because not all of those deaths would be "extra", some amount would have happened this year anyway.

The misery in peoples lives due to poverty is going to top any death toll we can get here.[/quote]

X 1000. We have collectively lost our minds. [/quote]

Losing 250,000 is what happens if we do what we are doing RIGHT NOW until the summertime at least.  That also assumes we have some way to stop being at home without transmitting it to everyone after that point.  With a conservative Case Fatality Rate of 0.5%, if everyone in the USA got infected  (330,000,000 people), 1,650,000 would die.  That's not a blip.  That's over half again as much as die from any cause in a year. And when you consider everyone getting sick over a short period, there really would be people dying in the streets with no one to transport their bodies.[/quote]

But your math isn’t providing how many of those are elderly and on death’s door anyway. It matters. Despite the fear mongering, this is a virus that kills markedly few young healthy people. [/quote]

I feel like you’re ignoring the reality on the ground.  Even with stay-at-home orders, and hospitals treating as many people as they can, people in NYC are dropping dead so fast that they can’t catch up on cremating or burying them.  What would that look like if we all just threw our hands up and said, “Ok, y’all just die, we’re not going to do anything about it”?   We’d just leave the bodies on the street like they’re doing in Ecuador?   Would that be good for the economy?   You can’t I ring the bell.  The choice isn’t lock down and wreck the economy, or don’t lock down and the economy will be fine.   The virus is here, and our economy will be wrecked one way or the other.

https://nypost.com/2020/04/04/nyc-crematories-backed-up-as-coronavirus-deaths-surge/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/ecuador-bodies-streets-guayaquil-coronavirus-covid-19/

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