I mean, everything else being equal, poverty will cause some people to die.

There are a lot of people who have lost all income due to this pandemic, it's not impossible to imagine that some of them either 1 - can't afford their medication necessary to stay alive, or 2 - may get some injury or illness during the time they are unemployed, which they cannot afford to address, and put off until it's fatal (an easy example may be people putting off going to the Dr for something which turns out to be a cancer they could have treated if they went when it was early stage)

The problem is, in the real world there's always a bit of everything.

Tanking the economy to reduce a pandemic impact, or letting a pandemic hit full-blast, there's going to be those people on the margins who will take it in the shorts regardless

I’d heard some anecdotal reinfection rumors from sources I don’t trust. It is possible. I’d like to see that South Korea data you point to because I’ve not seen anything legitimate confirming that and have direct access to that sort of thing.

Also as an aside, for what it’s worth I’m seeing lots of cases where folks got worse and died on the malaria drug (not just from danm but many cases folks I know are treating) but again it is anecdotal and I put as much weight in it in as the other direction. It’s not a matter of believe or feel to me. This is medicine and science. My hope (back to hope not know) is for a couple other treatments.

Some of the media and the president are playing with fire on the medical front. It’s not their wheelhouse. But they will just pretend they didn’t later and folks will go along with it.

Like I said before, "everything else being equal". I was careful to avoid comparing the two situations, because I think a lot of the same people (or different subsets of the same general group, "people living paycheck to paycheck") will die in either situation.

I don't know how they compare, or would compare. But it's fair to say that people will die from massive economic turbulence. It's also fair to say people will die from general stay at home/isolation procedures. And it's fair to say that people will die from letting the coronavirus run unchecked.

Anyone saying they know which choice will have the fewest people die, or the lowest economic impact, or both, is lying to you. About the only part of this that we've got an understanding on is the disease modeling. I don't think anyone understands the full financial implications of any of the possible choices.

who knows which/ or how many of your employees will get sick and die...what if it is a key person who is the tentpole of the operation?

it makes economic sense to test them all before going back to work until a vaccine is developed...and decide whether or not to open while quarantining the positives

wonder if UK PM BoJo now regrets listening to the experts who told him to leave everything open and let nature takes its course?

Aaaaand here we are allowing the government to dictate our every move... or lack of movement. Shutting down private business. Dictating procedures to the ones 'they' deem necessary.

I get it. It's serious. It's got me nervous now and if I've been exposed to it, so have my wife and BIL. I don't have a travel trailer to shelter in. All I have is my house.

Sacrificing freedom for safety... pretty sure Ben Franklin said we deserve neither.

Unreal.

I've been contacted about the expected need to repopulate...and I am a Patriot.