RE: Official live update of spread of COVID19
May 9, 2020 at 11:27 pm
(This post was last modified: May 9, 2020 at 11:30 pm by Rev. Rye.)
Funny thing is, while trying to find the source for his "suicides by lockdown in my state" statistic (I have not), I found this extrapolation of potential deaths from COVID in Australia under three scenarios: just go back to normal (288,454), slowly achieving herd immunity in a way that does not overwhelm the health care system (147,710), and plans to use strict measures to eradicate the virus, something Agnostico has spent all this time vehemently opposing (34,023). For the record, yes, this includes deaths from suicide and loneliness (they extrapolate 2,761 from suicide and a further 4,015 from loneliness from the added unemployment rate, which they estimate to top out at 15%). So, here we have an actual source explaining the calculus of why Agnostico's preferred plan does not work, they show off their own sources, and, as an added bonus, it's from (and applying data for) his own home country.
I'm not going to pretend to know the exact balance we'll need to strike to keep business alive while keeping the population from dying, but, frankly, I've talked enough with Agnostico on this and other threads to know that it's a very bad idea to base advice in this area on the words of someone who thinks that deadly diseases stop being a threat like this:
I'm not going to pretend to know the exact balance we'll need to strike to keep business alive while keeping the population from dying, but, frankly, I've talked enough with Agnostico on this and other threads to know that it's a very bad idea to base advice in this area on the words of someone who thinks that deadly diseases stop being a threat like this:
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.