| It's a prediction based on opinion and data, so I'm not able to support it beyond background references. You're asking me to prove something that hasn't occurred yet. My point is, poverty is deadly, the coronavirus response causes massive unemployment, unemployment causes poverty and so it's pretty obvious that the economic implications have a death rate associated with them that won't shake out for years. In my opinion, it'll be significantly worse. I don't like it when people hand wave away the blight of those in poverty for personal safety. These people have awful outcomes, and they're treated as collateral damage. The media talks about death from poverty all the time, except for now. Why? You cannot pause the economy without dramatic upheavals in industry and community. For example, one particular study found that from the 2008 economic crisis there were nearly 5,000 excess suicides in a single year. Well, this crisis is substantially worse and will last substantially longer. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0... |
Ah, so it's an opinion unsupported by facts or evidence. Got it.