A temporary wave of mass death (especially if they're largely people who would soon have died anyway) could well be easier to recover from.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @mcjulie and
You again ignored the part where 60% of the workforce get sick at practically the same time, leading to a collapse of medical care, leading to deaths unrelated to Corona.
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Replying to @RayTski @HenryTarquin and
Since you consciously keep forgetting that part I must assume you are arguing in bad faith, so I'll mute you now.
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I can't address everything at once. One thing worth pointing out: it's not as though 60% of the workforce will be INCAPACITATED at once.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
Half of all people (maybe; no one really knows) can get the disease without even noticing; and these are mostly younger people.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
So even if we all got the disease on the same Tuesday, it's HIGHLY doubtful 60% of the workforce would be incapacitated.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
However, even on the assumption that they were, this tsunami effect could well still be better for the economy than slow starvation.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
And in any case, my point about diminishing marginal disutility applies just as much to people falling sick, as to people dying.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
Your point about "diminishing marginal disutility" is completely wrong 10,000 deaths is MORE THAN twice as bad as 5,000 deaths, the negative impact MULTIPLIES How is this not fucking obvious
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As the death rate accelerates and it takes out more and more of the population the knock-on effects accelerate The higher a percentage of the population that suddenly dies, the harder it is to find unaffected people to take up the slack for the jobs of the affected people
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
That's the WHOLE THING THAT "FLATTENING THE CURVE" MEANS YOU TREMENDOUS PIECE OF SHIT "Well if a million people are *going* to die then let's just get it over with now" is the mindset of a fucking child with no understanding of what death means, practically or psychologically
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