Proposing a new concept. It’s called your “Death Number.” Your Death Number is the number of deaths of your fellow Americans you’re willing to accept to save, say, 1000 jobs. For context, we’ve lost around 461 jobs for every 1 death so far. What’s *your* Death Number?
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Replying to @jeremyfaust
Bit of a false dichotomy, that. Many of the jobs would be lost regardless of action. Some deaths may have occurred regardless also. Can't work out a realistic ratio if both sides of the equation are suspect
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Replying to @GidMK
So you think that sufficient thinking on the balance of risks of opening vs waiting has been achieved already?
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Replying to @jeremyfaust
Oh not at all. From my distant impressions in Australia, it seems like the reopening in many states of the US has been bizarre. I just don't think a single "Death Number" would be possible to reasonably calculate
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Replying to @GidMK @jeremyfaust
Quite frankly, I cannot fathom Georgia's lockdown at all. Reducing transmission for 3 weeks was never going to make an enormous dent in disease spread, so why bother doing it?
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Replying to @GidMK
This is my point. People are not thinking. My provocation does not have one correct answer. But it asks people to stop and think. To defend a position. To even *know* their position. To take responsibility for their position.
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Fair enough
Things that make no sense in an Australian context may be much more reasonable in the US, sadly
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