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Re:Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown by berryjerry on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @02:05PM (#22751708)
Suicides may very well exceed the loss. The current virus estimates are for 240,000 deaths/year. Suicides from 20 million layoffs could easily exceed that. The comparison to sprinklers is a false equivalency. It would be more like, if one house catches fire, should you turn on the sprinkler system for the entire city?
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Re:Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown by btilly on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @02:37PM (#22752090)
Do you have a source for that estimate and the assumptions it is based on.

By my estimate, the deaths in the USA alone, with no lockdowns, is around 2 million this year. Other attempts that I’ve seen to estimate it come out with similar figures.

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