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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Yes, there are harms to disease-prevention measures. We should certainly be weighing these against the potential harms that unmitigated epidemics do and think carefully about our choices
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But pretending that we can largely ignore COVID-19 without cost is just a disingenuous and nonsensical position that flies in the face of all evidence gathered to date
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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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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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I'm not saying that they are massive, but I am saying that a real cost-benefit examination would include secondary benefits even if only to quantify them as quite small
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