Re:Likely cause of mystery child hepatitis outbreak found
by elric on Monday July 25, 2022 @10:43AM
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It's probably not as cut and dry as we'd like it to be. How do you weigh a number of children with hepatitis vs people missing out on care because hospitals are overwhelmed with covid patients (in a world where there were no lockdowns)? Can we confidently say "lockdowns were bad because X children got ill and only Y people would have suffered from hospital-collapse"? Or the reverse?
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Re:Likely cause of mystery child hepatitis outbreak found
by jl6 on Monday July 25, 2022 @11:02AM
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I agree, it's difficult to evaluate, and I think we would benefit from recognizing the difficulty, and acknowledging that there were a lot of sound arguments being made both for and against lockdowns, and that the decision was a grave one. I supported the initial 2020 lockdown, and I lament that it did not come sooner, but I also don't hurl vitriol against those who delayed the decision, because I know that their motivation was not malice, but balancing the totality of needs.