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  • pgjacksonpgjackson ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I don't think anyone is disagreeing with that. Is it "shut the world down" deadly? That is debatable.

  • texdawgtexdawg ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    OK. Just for arguments sake.....knowing how many deaths are occurring with the "shut the world down"......how many deaths would there be if the country hadn't shut it down? Not starting an argument......just asking a question.

    And how many deaths would be considered acceptable?

  • pocoyopocoyo ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    How many would be acceptable in your family would be a better question. Let's personalize it. Others are just numbers. How many family members are you willing to lose?

  • SavageSavage ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    That's a lot of words.

  • DvilleDawgDvilleDawg ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @Savage THANK YOU!!!!

    That was hilarious and much needed.

  • pgjacksonpgjackson ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I dont' have an answer for that. It's an impossible question. All I know is that the world has NEVER done this before. You can't say "how many deaths are acceptable" that is a BS question. There are diseases out there that kill 4,000+ every single day and nobody cares. But this is worthy of world wide economic shut down for some reason. Yes, 60,000 is a big number...but it's something we have to deal with. The cure can't be worse that the disease. If these lock-down orders aren't lifted soon, the result will be WAY worse than whatever this disease would have done. Disease is part of life on Earth. Swine flu is killed twice as many people this year as it did in 2009. TB, AIDS, Malaria...the planet is riddled with terrible diseases. It's not going away...neither is Corona. At some point we are going to have to take our chances and get the freaking world back to normal. We can't hide in our houses, afraid of the daylight.

  • No one is forcing you especially to hide. You have a DOD CAC. That is your passport to everywhere inside your 100 mile travel area. Go on out and enjoy it.

  • razorachillesrazorachilles ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I was the one who provided the CDC cause of death stats yesterday - @texdawg is the 2nd person to raise them so to clarify, I wasn't trying to compare any of those causes to this pandemic: clearly apples & oranges. Social distancing won't impact cancer death rates (obviously).

    Intent was to merely provide an order of magnitude in the projected loss of life relative to other causes of death in this country that are generally unreported on a daily basis. 60,000 lives is a massive # and may still end up being on the lower end of projections when all is said and done, but I do think people largely go about their lives without realizing how many people pass away every day in our communities & country unless it's someone in their immediate circle (family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, etc.).

    Hopefully the other dozen or so posts on this thread I've posted are sufficient evidence that I don't think this is a harmless variant of the seasonal flu.

    In any case - pleased to see the total deaths IHME projected for today wound being slightly overstated/flat vs actuals.

  • dawgnmsdawgnms mod
    edited April 2020

    Whatever he considers minor. This morning his figure was 14K+ US, 86K+ worldwide

  • Lol! That was a good one my wife shared with me from Facebook the other day. Folks are really creative.

  • texdawgtexdawg ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    One of the best posts I've ever read

  • texdawgtexdawg ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Ok

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