And Texas Caves In
The last bastion of sanity has jumped on the "stay at home" bandwagon. They just sent me an email that they have closed all state parks to save the 1% who may die from the dreaded super virus. Texas...
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JRscooby wrote:dodge guy wrote:way2roll wrote:
Per the CDC - 22,000 people have died in the past 30 days due to the COVID in the US alone. that's a real number - although I have a feeling that you will find some way to say it's false news, or incorrect due to some data error because you obviously hold PHD's in statistics and disease control and somehow can refute these numbers.
So question for you, Where's YOUR evidence that the mandatory shutdown will kill more people than that? What's the number and at what rate? Links and supporting data is always helpful.
And 80,000 people died of the flu in 2017. I don't remember a shut down then? At the rate of 22,000 right now, that would be 66,000 by the end of the year. I don't see the issue that requires the country to be shut down.
Dodge guy, think you need to check your math;
80,000 a year means 80000/365=219 dead per day.
22,000 in 30 days is 22000/30=733 dead per day.
at that rate for a year we would loose 267,545 people. Think that would be a economic hit?
So you expect the US alone will have over double the number of worldwide deaths to date? Is that with or without a shutdown?
Let's hope you are just as wrong as all the models predicting that have been.
Let's rephrase the question. Which will cause more economic destruction? The loss of whatever number of people you want to claim at the average age of 79 -vs- the immediate unemployment of over 10 million working age people plus the shuttering of uncounted millions of small businesses?
