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by Michael_Murray
2238 days ago
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With that mindset, you’ll have a few million dead people (who are not contributing to the economy) by Christmas. Nobody who’s talking “reopening” is thinking about the drain on our society that so many dead will be. This is not a mutually exclusive choice, but “YOLO” isn’t a good risk management theory. |
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Guess what? Those few million? They won't be contributing to the economy either way, even without the coronavirus - because approximately all of them are over 70.
This virus takes the old and the sick.
So yes, a lot of people talking about reopening have assessed how much economic damage that 500,000-3,000,000 deaths would cause - and it's not much. Arguably, it's negative due to reduced health care costs.
There's a lot of reasons to avoid killing off our old and infirm. But economics is generally not one of them.