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The COVID-19 doomsday projections, used to lockdown USA on a fed & state level, are wrong. They didn’t pan out. The global math tells us a very different story. States are shutting down based on myths. The total isolation strategy is crushing the economy & it is not necessary.
Protect the actual living people or protect 'the economy'. Hint: without the people, there is no 'economy'.
I understand this sentiment, but you're looking at bad doomsday data (in your quoted tweet) from Imperial College London. Threat is way out of proportion. Real data is annihlating the Imperial College model. We should protect elderly & get back to work.https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1240839323726958592?s=20 …
The people who created this model 1) admittedly did not fully understand the virus (we still don't have enough research) and 2) greatly overestimated fatalities + transmission # s. The examples coming out of 100+ countries make that very clear. It's a bad virus, but not a plague.
Its a balancing act though. Some estimates say the Great Depression lead to 7 million excess deaths
hint, without the means to live, there are no people
The difference between Jordan and Geoffrey: Geoffrey has Silicon Valley friends who usually are all Gung-Ho hell-yeah let’s shoot people into space in untested rockets, but who are scared shitless by this virus.
Hint: without 'the economy' we might not have as many people left in 8 months
'Economy' is not just abstract. Global wealth creation / supply chains pull millions of people out of poverty and save countless lives otherwise subject to privation. The toll of shuttering business, etc., stifles this and diverts resources for all needs of human flourishing.
How many lives could be saved--indirectly impacted by coronavirus-- by keeping engine of industry running? Who knows. I'm by no means advocating shrugging off a pandemic. But it's false that economic consequences are just people having less spending money in wealthy west.
Hint: This isn’t Captain Trips
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