@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
The real question is not 'how deadly is the virus?', but 'how debilitating is the overall effect of the virus?'.
How many who catch the virus will suffer long term side effects?
What effect do the deaths or long time side effects have on the health - mental and physical - of family members?
How many more suicides will there be?
How many will suffer or even die from other diseases if the health system becomes overwhelmed and unable to care for them adequately?
How many more women will die in domestic violence episodes brought on by the frustrations of joblessness and social isolation?
Those things are to some extent mutually exclusive though, aren't they!
I'm not necessarily interested as such in how many die throughout the world, although I am not downplaying it at all.
I recognise the need to keep it in check as much as we are able so as not to overwhelm the hospital system all at once. And no, we don't know the long term effects on some people.
However, the fact is, that most who die from it will be older or will be people with underlying health issues. There are exceptions to every rule but that's the overall scenario.
Politicians have to walk a fine line between keeping the ehalth system a going concern and yet not devastating the economy for generations to come, because things such as joblesseness and domestic violence will rise the longer we have things shut down and people isolated.
We're going to have to accept a certain trade off in covid deaths, I think.
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