Saturday, May 2, 2020

On Chris Cuomo's "Stay Inside Saves Lives" Battle-Cry (a Proclamation that He Himself Hasn't Adhered to with His COVID but Whatever)

He's of course full of shit in that a) the sole thing being accomplished here is a flattening of the curve and so the total number of fatalities won't be reduced but rather extended over a longer period of time (which could present some benefits to the healthcare system but that's not we're debating here), b) the effects on the economy of this lockdown approach could potentially bring about even more deaths than the virus itself (deaths of despair, from a lack of preventative healthcare, etc.), and c) when you keep healthy folks quarantined for long periods of time you weaken their immune systems and make them MORE susceptible to not just the Wuhan-virus but to other infectious diseases as well AND you slow down the acquisition of population immunity, making it all but certain that the sucker will return, either this fall or in the spring.......Yeah, I'm gonna go with, "Pants On Fire" for this one.

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