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Re:L.A. Times to Furlough Workers as Ad Revenue ‘Nearly Elim... by gruturo on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @09:13AM (#22877276)
> I’m definitely in the camp that “the cure cannot be worse than the disease” itself. Sitting in California where there are so few cases makes me wonder if the economic toll is totally worth it. Seems like we’ve used a tsunami to put out a campfire.

You do realize that there are so few cases because of the lockdown, and otherwise those cases would not only be an order of magnitude higher, but also much much MUCH more likely to result in death because the medical system would be entirely saturated and unable to admit 80% of the people who show up ?

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Re:L.A. Times to Furlough Workers as Ad Revenue ‘Nearly Elim... by marcosdumay on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @10:17AM (#22877951)
> those cases would not only be an order of magnitude higher

An order of magnitude is a week of the natural virus spread. How long has been the lockdown there? Two weeks would mean imply in a two orders of magnitude difference.

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