I have great respect for people willing to take on the difficult question of balancing direct COVID-19 harms against the damage that control measures can do I have no respect at all for people who minimize the harms of COVID-19 in order to make this argument
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Also, if you are ignorant enough to ignore the secondary BENEFITS to COVID-19 restrictions (e.g. influenza deaths) in your assessment, then I would say your argument is entirely political and has no basis in science
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This is not to say that secondary benefits are likely to be enormous, but the point is any meaningful cost-benefit is not nearly as simple as preventing COVID-19 on one hand and getting kids back to school on the other
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Ignoring the side benefit of influenza control is also disingenuous.
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Straw man nobody suggesting we do nothing. Protecting elderly not treating them as bedblockers eg & throwing them in to care homes which account for a high % of deaths. Belarus didn't do that, & managed better than most in Europe NO lockdown even football with crowds continuedpic.twitter.com/pP5Cix8QBD
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Guess Sweden’s no longer the favorite since the announcement that controls will stay for up to a year. Protect the “elderly.” Like the 70 million over age 60? You just proved his point about the unserious. Way to go!
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