D&D and the rising pandemic


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Zardnaar

Legend
Yesterday I read a new scandal. Bolibia bought Spanish ventilators (machines what help to breath) with a higher price.


Let's imagine your own goverment incaute your things but not to distributite to who needs it more but for who pays more.

Still cheap, I thought they around 50k each.

0 new cases again. Went to a restaurant dine in. Support the local suburb. Hot butter chicken and a paneer kadai.

They've set up contact free paywave. Limit on numbers, only 10 per group.

Sanitizer at the door. They set up everything according to the new regulations.

Also a sign in/out book. In case of further outbreaks makes contact tracing easier. Not business as usual but first dine out in about 10 weeks.
 
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seebs

Adventurer
I'll rephrase herd immunity to survival of the fittest.

Multiply Covid deaths by 10 and it's still a fraction of how many people are going to starve to death.

What are the assumptions/specifics going into the "are going to starve to death" number? Are you including the usual rate at which people starve in the world anyway, which is pretty high but not really related usually?

All the economic research I've seen on epidemic/pandemic circumstances suggests that longer and stricter restrictions on public gatherings, etcetera, produce dramatically better outcomes both in terms of lives lost and in terms of economic recovery. It turns out dead people don't come back to work.
 


Istbor

Dances with Gnolls
I feel like America very much half-butted our approach to 'lockdown'. And unfortunately, imposing a real lockdown now is both too late, and too harmful to the country at large. Had it not been so spotty and varied in timing, I think we would be looking at a different summer. That time has past though, we sort of have to live with those choices now and do what we can.

I mean, the company I work for isn't going back to 'normal' until late August at this point. Sigh. Means more work for me, but we are in the biochemical/medical field so product must flow.
 



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