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by padde 2232 days ago
Take into account an overwhelmed health system and you will understand that the "spreading out over time" itself is in fact what is saving many lives.
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If I recall correctly, from the people that get put on ventilators only half of them live.

Secondly, why is nobody ever talking about the amount of deaths, starvation, homelessness and impoverishment that will result from economic damage of general quarantine. This always gets completely ignored and negated as if it doesn't exist.

You can't say that quarantine saves lives unless you quantify how many people are killed and are going to be killed by it.

My argument is that this by far will kill, starve and impoverish way more people than whatever number of people will get saved by having access to a ventilator.