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I’m curious...
Posted on: June 4, 2020 at 22:33:55 CT
bluetiger_ MU
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Just what do you think would have happened, death-wise, if we had taken absolutely no social distancing and mitigation efforts at all? Would there still be “only” 100,000 dead? Or would it be a half million by now, or even a million at this point?
That’s the number you need to compare your number of “increased deaths due to our actions” to.
Experts in the field tell us by taking the drastic social distancing and mitigation efforts when we did in March (even though it was several weeks too late to save a substantial percentage of persons who have died so far), it saved a staggering amount of lives.
The number you are referring to can, and will, be calculated by the experts in the field, by comparing death rates for various causes during the pandemic to death rates in similar time periods. That is an actual science. The same science that is suggesting the current death count is an undercount of those who have actually died from COVID.
My educated guess is that your post will not age well when the number you are referring to is identified and compared not just to the actual eventual death count, but the death count we would have had if we had done nothing at all. That is the fair comparison.
Your assertion will be tested by science, and facts. I don’t think you are going to like the answer you get. But hey, don’t worry, you can always call it “fake news” :)
That’s the number you need to compare your number of “increased deaths due to our actions” to.
Experts in the field tell us by taking the drastic social distancing and mitigation efforts when we did in March (even though it was several weeks too late to save a substantial percentage of persons who have died so far), it saved a staggering amount of lives.
The number you are referring to can, and will, be calculated by the experts in the field, by comparing death rates for various causes during the pandemic to death rates in similar time periods. That is an actual science. The same science that is suggesting the current death count is an undercount of those who have actually died from COVID.
My educated guess is that your post will not age well when the number you are referring to is identified and compared not just to the actual eventual death count, but the death count we would have had if we had done nothing at all. That is the fair comparison.
Your assertion will be tested by science, and facts. I don’t think you are going to like the answer you get. But hey, don’t worry, you can always call it “fake news” :)
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I’m curious... - bluetiger_ MU - 6/4 22:33:55
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