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comment by uhsguy

Seems fine to me, they are below others and didn’t implode their economy. Besides that chart is not labeled correctly. 15% of France did not die. Deaths per 1000 is only 1.5 times that of the us which is well within acceptable rates given they didn’t implode their economy. Also their cases per 1000 is below ours though a lot of this has to do with how people count and test





ooli  ·  1412 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We have to be very callous to oppose Economy Vs People (seems to be an opposition only an American can fathom)

Anyway the economy argument fell flat to justify the Sweden decision : https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/sweden-economy-likely-wont-benefit-from-decision-avoid-lockdown-report-2020-5

uhsguy  ·  1412 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Are you a vaccine is imminent believer? If not then what’s your argument for over flattening the curve? The initial argument for pushing infections under hospital capacity was a good one, but I see no good argument to stay under that. The optimal point is just under capacity with maybe some additional benefit for getting a bit more time for PPE production to come online. There is no endgame for quarantine, delay infections as much as possible till a miracle happens? This thing could last years, We may have to go many cycles with covid until we get our shit together with contact tracing testing and what not. Then maybe we can try again with lockdown to stamp it out.

The article mentions 30% reduction in revenue. That is less than what restaurant are seeing just for using grub hub. It’s not great but better than what they are seeing now in the USA.