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2020-05-26 Economy

Why Didn't the 1958 and 1918 Pandemics Destroy the Economy? Hint: It's the Lockdowns

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Posted by Clem 2020-05-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11124 views ] Top

#1 Maybe there were fewer irrelevant workers.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-26 00:16|| 2020-05-26 00:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Leaving aside the fact there's no evidence lockdowns actually work

Except if one is willing to look at the evidence.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-26 00:27|| 2020-05-26 00:27|| Front Page Top

#3 ^Let us, for a change ignore Sweden vs. its neighbors and look at Montana vs. Nebraska: 15 deaths per million vs. 77. I wonder what the difference is?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-26 01:21|| 2020-05-26 01:21|| Front Page Top

#4 ^Hint, it's not R vs. D: compare Texas & Florida.
And it's not population density.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-26 01:23|| 2020-05-26 01:23|| Front Page Top

#5 /\ There were ZERO cases of CV-19 reported among the Sentinelese people of Montana and Nebraska. Not certain if that fact is relevant, but it is a fact.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-26 01:26|| 2020-05-26 01:26|| Front Page Top

#6 What about the Ainu People of Montana and Nebraska? Asking for a friend.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-26 04:20|| 2020-05-26 04:20|| Front Page Top

#7 It's my bet that more have been killed by the redirection of virtually all treatment into "exciting" fighting covid rather than treating the actually sick.

Most of the excess mortality will come from people who died waiting for treatment that would normally be available!

In the UK the ONS estimated 55,000 excess deaths but 35,000 died with suspected covid (i.e. that's the absolute maximum that actually died from it).Therefore at least 20,000 out of the 55,000 died from the health service just not being there.

Sarcastic clap for the NHS...

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-05-26 05:20|| 2020-05-26 05:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Treating people with cancer, diabetes, heart failure or COPD is so boring. Not hero work.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-26 07:30|| 2020-05-26 07:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Yeah, and I'm fed up with the commenter who says Chinavirus is "The Only Thing™" Get over it.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-26 07:34|| 2020-05-26 07:34|| Front Page Top

#10 He seems to need deprogramming.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-26 07:36|| 2020-05-26 07:36|| Front Page Top

#11 Nebraska has meat-packing plants with workers who speak 40 different languages and must work to feed their families, as well as the essential service of feeding America?

Posted by Bobby 2020-05-26 09:33|| 2020-05-26 09:33|| Front Page Top

#12 In Nebraska 1/6 of the cases were in packing plants. Moreover, Montana has meat packing plants too.

Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-05-26 10:08|| 2020-05-26 10:08|| Front Page Top

#13 People say "meat packing plant." Have you looked at the mechanics of the work place? The lifestyles of the employees outside work. Yes. No. PhD epidemiologists have it all figured out. At a distance. With a mask. And a scarf.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-26 10:20|| 2020-05-26 10:20|| Front Page Top

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