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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by dcolkitt on Monday August 23, 2021 @11:21PM (#28284756)
The RAND healthcare study showed that drastic drops in medical expenditures had virtually no impact on mortality. Potentially even negative impact.[1]

The reality is if you're a health adult, an overburdened ER or OR poses a very small risk. Probably much less than what could be made up by eating one extra daily serving of vegetables.[2] You have far more to fear from lockdown induced supply chain disruptions that cause fresh produce shortages at the local grocer.

[1]https://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/09/10/robin-hanson/cut-med... [2]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4727264/

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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by t-writescode on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @02:00AM (#28285568)
Statistics don't matter here.

A person getting in a car accident is relatively low chances; but when there's a car accident, I want there to be supply for every single person that was in that car accident and not already dead to have a hospital bed.

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