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Re:Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine... by kelnos on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @03:06AM (#22932694)
Do you have citations to back up those numbers? I've been looking for things to read that try to quantify the potential harm of shelter-in-place orders, but haven't found much that go anywhere beyond wild guesses.
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Re:Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine... by camgunz on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @03:29AM (#22932820)
Yeah! Well, not the suicides. The stuff I found was like "9 suicides in Tennessee" (which is tragic but not indicative) and a lot of coverage of Trump's lies about it. But COVID-19 I used:

https://www.livescience.com/is-coronavirus-deadly.html

and

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241488/population-of-the...

Feel free to check my math, it's late and I did some pretty sketchy rounding.

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