Why Conservatives and Liberals Are Not Experiencing the Same Pandemic

Re:Why Conservatives and Liberals Are Not Experiencing the S... by triceratops on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @03:25PM (#23083814)

> And a recent paper in the UK asserted that there have already been 20,000 (??) excess deaths due to people who need cancer screening and treatment not going (or not being able to go) to medical facilities.

Won't letting the virus spread make it even harder for others to access treatment?

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Re:Why Conservatives and Liberals Are Not Experiencing the S... by downerending on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @03:50PM (#23084125)

Doing this right will certainly take some thought. As long as it's spreading among the "young" (under 60 or so), those people will miss a week of work or two and that will be it.

It's protecting the "old" that's going to matter here. Many of them are old enough that screening doesn't matter much anymore. In any case, if we let up on the lockdowns, that would free up a lot of money to pour onto careful protection of the old, which arguably would cut ultimate deaths more than the status quo.

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