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by op00to 2258 days ago
Do you have any evidence that social isolation will cause more deaths than an unchecked pandemic? That makes no sense.
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Indeed, CDC's numbers for March indicate that social isolation is reducing non-ncovid-19 deaths by twice as much as sars-cov-2 is adding them. That's short term, so not what GP was talking about, but very significant numbers nonetheless.
They’re talking about the conservative/trumpy talking points of the economy being more important than grandparents.