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Re:Norway advises citizens to avoid all travel abroad by goatinaboat on Saturday August 08, 2020 @11:13AM (#24092238)
But my loved one is in another country and the last thing my heart needs is more lock-downs. We need to consider what closed borders are doing to bi-national married / unmarried couples. They've been a largely ignored demographic during this pandemic and collateral damage due to the broad and sweeping policies that have taken place on the borders.

Depression, stress and loneliness all have health consequences too. Whether that is separation from loved ones, or seeing the business that fed your family evaporating before your eyes. In the rush to protect ourselves from a disease with a 99.97% survival rate, that only tips people over the edge who had pre-existing morbid conditions, that most people won't even know that they've had, we have sown the seeds of something that will kill many more people.

Re:Norway advises citizens to avoid all travel abroad by iso1210 on Saturday August 08, 2020 @12:28PM (#24092872)
> from a disease with a 99.97% survival rate

IFR seems in the >1% range, admitadly this is skewed towards older people. Maybe that IFR is overestimated slightly, but it's far far more deadly than 0.03%

https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/now-casting/