This is a possible death vs guaranteed death. I guess we view things philosophically different. I don't think people who think like you do will never see it the way people who think like I do and vice versa. Imminent and certain death vs hypothetical maybe death. SMH. I can't get with you on this one.
Better to drive to nowhere than to let your battery die IMHO. You don't need a mask and gloves if you stay in your vehicle for a half hour' s drive.
There aren’t a ton of things you can get economists to all agree on, but the one thing they seem to agree on is that the economy will be a lot worse if we lift social distancing practices too soon:Y'know, everybody seems to take it as a given that another Great Depression will kill people at a high rate and there's some intersection point where quarantining (and the resulting economic effects) becomes more deadly than the virus.
Only, what if that isn't so?Life and death during the Great Depression
Recent events highlight the importance of examining the impact of economic downturns on population health. The Great Depression of the 1930s was the most important economic downturn in the U.S. in the twentieth century. We used historical life expectancy and mortality data to examine...www.pnas.org
Unfortunately reopening the economy has nothing to do with the long haul. It has everything to do with getting the economy rolling in the right direction by the first week of November.There aren’t a ton of things you can get economists to all agree on, but the one thing they seem to agree on is that the economy will be a lot worse if we lift social distancing practices too soon:
and research looking into the 1918 pandemic further backs this up:
Cities That Went All In on Social Distancing in 1918 Emerged Stronger for It (Published 2020)
They had lower mortality rates from the influenza pandemic. But their economies also appeared to fare better.www.nytimes.com
People seem to be scared of a tension that really doesn’t exist. Being more diligent on the front end is better for everyone, health wise and economically, over the longer term.
And in a globalized economy one of the things that is really concerning is America failing to do enough now and this dragging out for months or years while other countries that were more diligent in their social distancing and test and tracing practices, get up and running and have enormous competitive advantages because we can’t get our stuff straight with the virus.
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