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Re:Calling for benefit–risk evaluations of Covid-19 control ... by vecplane on Sunday February 21, 2021 @08:35PM (#26219628)
Could we have done this before we destroyed a significant percentage of small businesses with lockdowns?

And what's the mortality rate for otherwise healthy people? Greater than 99.9%?

Re:Calling for benefit–risk evaluations of Covid-19 control ... by throwawaysea on Sunday February 21, 2021 @09:42PM (#26220184)
The infection fatality rate overall in the US is around 0.65%, meaning a 99.35% survival rate. For ages below 50, the survival rate is ~99.99% (https://www.nbc26.com/news/coronavirus/cdc-estimates-covid-1...). And it seems that controllable personal lifestyle choices like maintaining a balanced diet and getting outside may have played a role as well since Vitamin D deficiency increases chance for fatality from COVID-19 by 3.7x (https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/942497).

I do think there is an injustice in draconian coronavirus measures because this is a low risk event ultimately. So by making everyone change their entire lives, we are making it so everyone gives something up so that those with a higher (but still low) risk can continue to go outside and partake in business, leisure, etcetera to a limited extent. This was the alternative to instead having just the risk averse or vulnerable quarantine themselves if they feel the odds are not agreeable (they could just self isolate and face nearly no risk). Put another way, lockdown measures and other mandates or restrictions trade the freedoms, leisures, financials, mental health, and stability of the young, healthy, and personally responsible to reduce the risk exposure of other people to an amount where the other people can live a slightly more normal life than otherwise.

When I see children losing a year of socialization and education so that a small proportion of the very elderly can live slightly longer, I feel like we are making a disastrous tradeoff.

Re:Calling for benefit–risk evaluations of Covid-19 control ... by throwawayyy1986 on Monday February 22, 2021 @07:40PM (#26232550)
Yea you've got the intelligent and right response imo. Politics, anxiety and tribalism obscured the obvious picture you've laid out.
Re:Calling for benefit–risk evaluations of Covid-19 control ... by throwaway888abc on Sunday February 21, 2021 @08:45PM (#26219720)
Upvoted and adding relative story from a week ago

It's middle of winter in Europe, old jacket got broken and you can't buy winter jacket because the non-essential shop are closed....

Re:Calling for benefit–risk evaluations of Covid-19 control ... by hfsp on Sunday February 21, 2021 @09:07PM (#26219916)
Nothing like a good crisis for the political-bureaucratic class to usurp power without debate on drawbacks and second order effects.

Note government bureaucrats and politicians continued to collect a steady paycheck. Small businesses, RIP.