Others in this thread claim to know how deadly COVID-19 is to a percentage point or so. Let's assume they're right.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
This means that the worst-case cost of COVID-19 directly is a relatively known quantity: 1.5% mortality (or whatever it is)...
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
Plus great unpleasantness for, let's say, 20% of survivors. Worst case: we all get it. That's a lot of death and a lot of pain.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
On the other hand, the kind of economic collapse one might is less bounded. How bad is the "worst case" scenario? Harder to tell.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
What the fuck are you talking about How the hell does a huge swathe of the population getting seriously sick and everyone knowing someone who's died horribly of the virus have only "bounded" economic effects compared to the "unbounded" ones of lockdown
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
In fact how does everyone's growing inescapable awareness that death is all around them not just lead to HAVING A LOCKDOWN ANYWAY Only, because of the delay between infection and symptoms, it happens too late to stop it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
Jesus Christ mass death - and widespread awareness and fear of mass death - NECESSARILY ENTAILS SHUTDOWN It is completely insane to argue otherwise, it requires forgetting everything you know about human nature
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
This is SO FUCKING STUPID Any horrible knock on effects you can imagine for the economy from lockdown before the mass deaths are just as if not more likely to happen during or after them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
How STUPID do you have to be to think "Well, a bunch of people get horribly sick, a huge number of people die, and it's BACK TO WORK AT WAL-MART with no other economic effects" What the FUCK
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
No, the worst case scenario of a maximum death rate at maximum speed is not "known" The mere fact of a 1.5% death rate is not "one effect" It contains a multitude of effects Long term social and psychological changes Violence, unrest, systemic collapse
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People will not just fucking accept it I know our corporate masters think and wish and hope that this will happen We'll have a few sad weeks of "Goodbye Grandpa" followed by "Now back to business as usual!" This is because they are viciously, maniacally stupid
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
They are building their own funeral pyre by pursuing this route and they don't even seem to realize it The cheeky little bastards are pushing for a liability waiver from Congress like a class action lawsuit is the worst they have to fear and not torches and pitchforks
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
dude I *think* they are more sociopathic than stupid, it matters, we use different tools to fight
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