re: The price on this Economy IS NOT WORTH it @ this death rate- Sorry

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Getting closer by the day. I'd argue this is the closest to societal collapse since the civil war

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I'd say you need to take a chill pill.

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If 350 million get it and assuming only 1% mortality that is 3.5 million people.

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You just theorized more than 100% of Americans would get the virus. Which is as likely as 80%, I guess.

Italy has gone from near 0 to over 41K cases in 18 days with the vast majority of cases in the Lombardy region consisting of ~ 10 Million.

4000 dead and 2K currently critical (demanding an ICU and ventilator). Only 5K cleared leaving 35 thousand either going north or south from a prognosis perspective.

With ~ 3 million in the St Louis Metro area, if unchecked, your ICU beds will be taken up in matter of a week or so and the moral dilemma of who gets to live and who gets to die begins to play out.

Now, go throw yourself a big party with all of your like minded moronic friends with you.

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You showed zero of your work.

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Go frick yourself.

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Im not sure you understand. The issue is not the death rate WITH the mitigations. The issue is what will happen if we don't take these steps you are complaining about.
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agree

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The number you need to look at is the percent of people who require intensive care to survive and recover. That number is astronomical.

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What is that number?

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If the ICUs get overwhelmed you have Italy.

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How many deaths will there be in Italy? If you were to apply that the US population, how many deaths will that be?

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We used to exile our elderly. Now we spend excessive amounts of money keeping them alive unnecessarily

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Selfish boomers. Just flat-out refuse to go quietly into that good night.

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If 350 million get it

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So, you're assuming a nearly 100% contagion rate?

At this point maybe we would be better off if we just had everybody get it and deal with the half a percent dying. I know that is 1.7M people. Either have a million plus people die or have a million plus people die and wreck the economy forever.

At this point I am not 100% kidding. If it is so contagious and dangerous and unstoppable just get it over with.

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The mortality rate is only that low because everyone can get care.

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What is "that low"? what is the "not that low"?

We don't even have anything remotely close to adequate testing, especially of recovered and low-to-no-symptomatic positives, to say "that low." it's almost certainly lower.

And we need morbidity numbers to begin to make the sort of analysis to draw anything like your conclusion.

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that's because you don't have the foresight to see the economic hell that's coming to people

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If the health care system crumbles here like in Italy, it is going to be a similar hell that is much harder to escape from.

I am not in the shut it down for months crowd either, I get that it isn't sustainable but you need to give people time to be ready and to slow things down for now.