Re:Shelter in place for Bay Area counties
by s1artibartfast on Monday March 16, 2020 @09:50PM
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>How bad is it for all these "old people" if they are dead?
It would be really nice to hear compassion instead of worry about money.
Economic factors should absolutely be taken into account. Money pays for life saving medication and treatments. Tax money from the economy pays for social medicine.
For example, 280,000 EXTRA people died from cancer between 2008-2010 in the OCED. When you consider heart disease, other indications, and the rest of the world, you are talking millions of lives.
Far more people could easily die from the economic fallout in the US than the virus.
Economic factors should absolutely be taken into account. Money pays for life saving medication and treatments. Tax money from the economy pays for social medicine.
For example, 280,000 EXTRA people died from cancer between 2008-2010 in the OCED. When you consider heart disease, other indications, and the rest of the world, you are talking millions of lives.
Far more people could easily die from the economic fallout in the US than the virus.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...