Fear and beauty: two weeks living with Covid-19

Re:Fear and beauty: two weeks living with Covid-19 by wccrawford on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @07:19AM (#22864663)

My understanding was the social distancing won't actually prevent everyone from getting covid19, it'll just slow it down so that we don't all get it at once. Most people will end up with it.

So given that, I'd say the changes are nearly 0%.

To actually keep infections to a minimum, we need to actually quarantine, but (again, my understanding) that will have too many other negative effects, and the economic hardships could actually kill more people than the disease would have.

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Re:Fear and beauty: two weeks living with Covid-19 by steveeq1 on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @10:30AM (#22866410)

So much this. And I wish people would understand this concept. We are going to get hyperinflation now, US dollars will become worthless soon, and the social safety net will disappear. This is going to cause a lot more societal grief than corona.

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