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comment by ooli

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  ·  1438 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.