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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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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And how about the higher in deaths YOU are ignoring from other causes at home? Many of these through fear of going to hospital or refusal/cancellation of treatment.pic.twitter.com/QxSlSpZwd7
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Where did I say that?
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Surely the second-order benefits of C19 restrictions are rather minor (and temporary), compared to the damage caused, which is major and hard to reverse? I agree that benefits need to be factored in, but sceptical they are a significant item on the ledger.
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Also, you are slipping into this idea that the life of a free person is equivalent to the life of an unfree person. We can prevent someone from dying in a car accident by locking them in prison for the rest of their life, but no normal person would see that as a life saved.
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I agree with all of this but, and this may be an ignorant question, should we be worried about lowered flu immunity? We all come out COVID vaccinated blinking into the light and suddenly it’s flu season 1957...
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