Lots of people have replied to this saying "but you can't expect anyone to expose their families to potential death!" and to you I say: yeshttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1301401048716775424 …
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Quite, and as someone who runs a (fairly fragile) business I have much the same experience when people on secure pay / benefits lecture me on how easy it is to just shut down or severely curtail my business for X months.
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My point is that your logic about people taking on the risks they advocate for others ("skin in the game" or whatever you want to call it)... applies just as much to people who propose measures that destroy people's livelihoods. It's an unattainable standard.
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Not sure where you live Health Nerd, but there's no debate in the U.S. about balancing risks and making smart trade offs. The concept of lockdown deaths doesn't exist in the narrow framework of U.S. debate. It's a non-idea in the public square. It's even worse in the Bay Area.
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Example of lockdown deaths from New Zealand: Fewer suicides during their Alert Level 4:https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/05/coronavirus-suicide-rate-was-lower-during-lockdown-than-before-it-provisional-figures-show.html …
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