"The estimated IFR is close to zero for younger adults but rises exponentially with age, reaching about 0.3% for ages 50-59, 1.3% for ages 60-69, 4% for ages 70-79, 10% for ages 80-89." Never mind the facts. Let's shriek about "cases" every day.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160895v3 …
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Sympathetic to your viewpoint, not Adam's, but you're both just committing the naturalistic fallacy. IFR is ~X; so we ought to do Y. Both sides are over confident in what the policy implications are from the numbers.
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You have never heard of the precautionary principle? Check out this interesting assessment of COVID-19 and its relationship with cancer deaths if the principle is applied.
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Agreed it's a killer virus. But there's also a B side in this pandemic with people losing their job, not being able to pay for their medicine, food, hospital and a roof for themselves and their kids and dying as a consequence.
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