Later on it may be a major factor, but right now it is probably outweighed in the counts by less car accident deaths, lower transmission of other communicable respiratory diseases, and less work and leisure accidents.
Re:Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe
by stOneskull on Monday May 04, 2020 @11:15AM
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The secondary effects are much worse. The virus is being used as an excuse to get more control of the people and planet by the psychopaths. They don't really care about us.
I don't know why something so easily disproved is being repeated so often. The worst-case of an economic shutdown is not worse than 2 million dead people.
Added bonus: the economic outcome of 2 million dead people is bad too, perhaps worse than a shutdown of (largely) healthy people. It's not an either/or, economic hardship right now is unavoidable. The choice is between getting a handle on the virus or not, and thousands dead instead of millions.
I suspect that will account for most of the differential, and possibly even be the more important number. (because many countries diagnose deaths with covid as deaths by covid)