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Re:L.A. Times to Furlough Workers as Ad Revenue ‘Nearly Elim... by mattmanser on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @08:42AM (#22877015)
The Barista's sister would fall into the thousands (or even 10,000s) of 2nd connections you have, in which there will almost certainly be young deaths. The goalie might have had health complications. I personally know at least 2 people with diabetes, 2 with asthma, plus one post-cancer. Maybe I'm a little older than you, but many of us would know a young-ish person that would die (a quarter maybe if the 0.2% chance of 20-39 year old death is in the right order of magnitude).

Also, don't forget death rates would go up if a healthcare system collapses, which we haven't seen.

I think you're the delusional one, while your personal chance of dying is fairly low, you know hundreds of people, and those people know thousands more.

Re:L.A. Times to Furlough Workers as Ad Revenue ‘Nearly Elim... by ceilingcorner on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @09:03AM (#22877199)
Are the chances of these people dying from COVID greater than other risks we take every single day, yet don't shut down society and curtail freedoms over?

That is really the only question that matters.

Re:L.A. Times to Furlough Workers as Ad Revenue ‘Nearly Elim... by mattmanser on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @10:45AM (#22878307)
Yes, for example covid deaths in Scotland are 1/3 of all deaths, deaths in UK:

"The Office for National Statistics said that in the week to 3 April, 16,387 people died in England and Wales, an increase of 5,246 deaths compared with the previous week and 6,082 more than the five-year average."

And that's WITH a lock down, way before the massive peak that could have happened.

It's like you're stuck in the wishful thinking stage the rest of us were in two months ago.