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RE: A lot of politicians are fucking idiots, and it shows.
we can't stay in lockdown forever, the world economy wouldn't be able to bear it. Eventually we are going to have to resume business, even if people do die.
I'm not trying to start an argument but did you see that the guy who made the "millions will die" model that largely impacted the decision to lockdown has severely revised his model and now it is between 20,000 and 100,000? I've only read the headlines but will dig into it later on today.
I hadn't seen anything about that projection.
I've seen quite a few different projections based on our activity. I dunno if anyone really knows for sure how many will die at this point. We're still not sure about the morbidity as far as I know.
But right now the US has 100k infected. Italy has had 80k cases and 10k deaths. That suggests possibly over 1% death when hospitals are overrun. Hopefully we can manage to deal with our cases a bit better than that due to the sheer size of the US, and keep infections low, because if we did have mass infections in the millions and over 1% morbidity...that would not be good.