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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Very confused as to why anyone is considering any of these openings when the Trump Admin is predicting 3k deaths a day which will bring us back to where we were in mid-March very quickly. [/quote]
They predicted 2.2 million deaths in the beginning. People aren’t buying their BS models anymore. [/quote]

+1. We’re two weeks behind Italy...  we’re 8 days behind Italy...[/quote]

The 2.2 million was a projection based on not taking any mitigation measures-- no shut down, no social distancing, no telework or tele school, no additional hygiene practices.

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THIS.  It baffles me how people just don’t seem to get this. [b]We shut things down in early March so that we would not get the 2.2 million projected deaths and now that we didn’t, we’re hearing “oh COVID 19 is not that bad, why did we shut down”?  This lack of critical thinking baffles me. Is this a reflection of the USVeducation system?[/b][/quote]

The &quot;Oh Covid 19 is not that bad&quot; is coming from the fact that it kills less than 1% of people who are infected by it.  Yes, those of us who are pushing for things to reopen, fully realize that the numbers would be much higher if it weren't for the shutdown, but the % of fatalities would still be very small.  You're thinking in terms of numbers, we are thinking in terms of percentages.  To us, a virus that kills such a small percentage of people is not worth turning our society into something that falls in the range of a Great Depression or Zombie Apocalypse.[/quote]

How many people would have been killed this year if we didn’t lock down? 
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The virus has been in the states since December, people weren’t dropping like flies then up until March.

Where is the proof that social distancing DID work? [/quote]

The curve flattening?

[b]How many people do you think will die from covid if we open up now and no longer social distance at all[/b]?

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How bad do you think the economy will get if we continue to keep things shut down?[/quote]

[b]Very bad. But again how many people do you think will die? If we are weighing options we need to have full picture[/b]. 
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I don't know specifically how many people, but I know it's less than 1% that are infected, and that's not worth the economic cost. [/quote]

[b]But you need some idea of #s to make an educated decision.[/b] Say 3 million (.1% of US population) die. Are they not worth the economic cost? 
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No you don’t. Less than 1% is less than 1%. Whether that number is 500 or 5 million. You don’t destroy the world for 99% of society to say 1%. Especially when most of that 1% has one foot in the grave. [/quote]

You don’t see any difference in 500 vs. 5 million people dying?  :shock:

[b]We didn’t need to destroy the economy. Universal healthcare and UBI would have helped tremendously. [/b]
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All economies will be destroyed when this is all over. This far surpasses what can be handled by universal healthcare and UBI. Money doesn’t grow on trees. [/quote]

We'd certainly have a lot more to hold us over if we didn't give massive tax breaks to large corporations and billionaires.

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