Re:Ask HN: Are we overreacting to coronavirus?
by whb07 on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:28PM
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Because you’ll see other countries who didn’t and they aren’t dead.
Not only that, is that at what point, is current and future generations well being worth to save the population that’s largely impacted by this?
Meaning, it’s perverse to spend more resources on the elderly as opposed to the youth. This just dials up the perversion to an extreme.
Re:Ask HN: Are we overreacting to coronavirus?
by sharken on Friday March 20, 2020 @01:17PM
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What i don't get is that these rational thoughts backed up by hard facts that says Italy lost 60.000 people(!) over a three year period to the common flu, are being overheard/ignored in place of a response that threaten to throw organized countries into economic chaos.
The world's leaders are stuck between a rock and a hard place here: do nothing, and be known as the leader who didn't act and caused the deaths of thousands or millions. Act with appropriately extreme measures and prevent as many deaths, and everyone will think the measures weren't warranted because the measures were successful.