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<blockquote data-quote="Acolyte of Zothique" data-source="post: 7943426" data-attributes="member: 6852701"><p>Spurious answer at best. If you don't focus on saving lives the mortality rate from the virus plus collateral increased mortality due to an overwhelmed health system - heart attacks not being dealt with; strokes not being dealt with; insufficient capacity to deal with trauma; insufficient capacity to provide cancer treatment; insufficient capacity to monitor conditions such as diabetes, MS, etc; will cause massive economic damage. I'm a health care professional; I can say that if your healthcare system can't cope because of the enormous surge of people needing medical intervention/ critical care then the COVID 19 mortality rate will rise to about 12%. Plus, the collateral death rate I explained above. World wide that equates to many millions of deaths.</p><p></p><p>Focus on preventing infection spread to flatten the curve of peak infection first. The economy has to be protected where possible for sure but it's not the number one priority.</p><p></p><p>In China and South Korea, they haven't just managed to flatten the curve, they killed the curve.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Acolyte of Zothique, post: 7943426, member: 6852701"] Spurious answer at best. If you don't focus on saving lives the mortality rate from the virus plus collateral increased mortality due to an overwhelmed health system - heart attacks not being dealt with; strokes not being dealt with; insufficient capacity to deal with trauma; insufficient capacity to provide cancer treatment; insufficient capacity to monitor conditions such as diabetes, MS, etc; will cause massive economic damage. I'm a health care professional; I can say that if your healthcare system can't cope because of the enormous surge of people needing medical intervention/ critical care then the COVID 19 mortality rate will rise to about 12%. Plus, the collateral death rate I explained above. World wide that equates to many millions of deaths. Focus on preventing infection spread to flatten the curve of peak infection first. The economy has to be protected where possible for sure but it's not the number one priority. In China and South Korea, they haven't just managed to flatten the curve, they killed the curve. [/QUOTE]
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