Maybe, but if so, it's for reasons largely unrelated to the stuff Chu is talking about.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
One thing they might be thinking: prolonged lockdown risks an economic collapse so dire it would devastate us far more than coronavirus.
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oh my god, this is so fucking stupid. A whole lot of people dying ALSO risks a really dire economic collapse! The Black Death reshaped Europe's entire economy and political system!
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Replying to @iridienne @RayTski and
Absolutely. I agree with this point also; indeed it's part of my point: we're in a devil of a situation...
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @iridienne and
With bad economic AND bad health consequences, in some form, whichever path we take.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @iridienne and
But some are worse than others (on both dimensions, health and economics).
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @iridienne and
It doesn't strike me as nuts that a too-harsh lockdown might have WORSE economic effects than even the maximum C19 death toll.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @iridienne and
It may be false! But it's not nuts. And it's certainly more likely now than in Europe at the time of the Black Death.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @iridienne and
That disease took a FAR greater toll than this one ever will. Indeed if a disease of this relative mildness had hit us centuries ago...
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @iridienne and
We'd have shrugged it off. We may not even have noticed. (And this isn't to downplay it: I certainly think serious measures are warranted.)
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You have a caricatured understanding of life centuries ago that is incorrect
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
This can be said of so many people on so many topics
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