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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
What do people mean when they refer to the "economy?" Are they talking about just the stock market? Or are they talking about the effect a depression/recession will have on American lives/businesses? Putting millions of people out of work. Putting companies that will never come back out of business. Destroying the economic lives of 10x (just throwing that number out there) the amount of people who may perish. Should we destroy the economy to save 10 lives? 100? 1000? 100,000? Again, just thinking out loud - not promoting this position. It's just the econ-based part of my brain that thinks about these things in a cost/benefit way..the other parts of my brain think this part is disgusting.
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According to the latest figures, Italy has 59,138 who have tested positive, and 5,476 who have died. That yields a mortality rate of about 9%, in a country with a modern healthcare system. If you don't try to protect the healthcare system by slowing the disease, the mortality rate goes up because it's not possible to treat people who are really sick.
Also, whether the rate is 2.5% or 9%, the idea of doing that kind of cost-benefit analysis goes out the window when it's people you know. I have elderly relatives who are posting on Facebook that this is all some kind of suspicious hoax. They are going to change their tune before too long.
