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Septic said:
I'm just trying to figure out where the monetary threshold is for death being an acceptable alternative.

E.g. 1,000 points off the DOW for each 10,000 dead?

Would the threshold be lower if the disease affected the young more disproportionately than the old?
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I think you're just trying to play the emotional bs route here and point fingers at the people that clearly understand there is a level that is acceptable versus this scorched earth economic strategy.

And yes the threshold would be lower if this killed young people more. Young people are valued more. This is a fact and that is how it should be.
 
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Franklin Pierce said:
Tony Blair: ‘Our Teams Are Embedded in Governments Around the World’

The globalist think tank run by Tony Blair has claimed that it is “embedded in governments around the world”, supposedly advising them on the Chinese coronavirus crisis — despite the former prime minister’s connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime.

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The Tony Blair Institue said that it has “teams” advising world governments “to keep their people safe during this pandemic — not just in respect of Covid-19 itself but also the political and economic collateral damage.”

The think tank has advised governments to adopt “dramatically increased technological surveillance”, arguing that it is “a price worth paying”.

Tony Blair: 'Our Teams Are Embedded in Governments Across the World'
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It's Breitbart, nothing to see here.
 
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Septic said:
I'm just trying to figure out where the monetary threshold is for death being an acceptable alternative.

E.g. 1,000 points off the DOW for each 10,000 dead?

Would the threshold be lower if the disease affected the young more disproportionately than the old?
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Hey you're at least asking the right questions. Now try without the heavily laden sarcasm.

Forget jobs and lively hoods, public policy sacrifices lives for personal convenience.

If keeping everything foggy helps you pretend we aren't forced to put a price tag on lives, then that's fine. Doesn't make it less true.
 
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volbeast33 said:
What an idiotic policy..... skilled nursing facilities are already lower than capacity than they can hold..... move healthy patients to an all healthy facility while turning a skilled nursing facility into a huge covid unit. I found out the other day that people can test positive for 30 days after testing positive the first time and quarantining for 14 days.
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I agree with this approach - and I think that it would have been an even more important approach in states with lower active infection rates than NY (and other northeast states). The issue there was that the virus was going to be carried into the facilities by the staff - the odds of being infected were just too high to really keep it out of the nursing homes.

I don't know if you saw my post from earlier today, but I spent time this morning looking into this. I wanted to look at total nursing home deaths vs. the number of residents in these facilities; computing a probability of death for nursing home residents so far by state. Interestingly, New York fared better than many other northeast states with a lower probability of death in their nursing homes than New Jersey, Massachusetts, or Connecticut.

I also computed the relative risk of someone in a nursing home vs. the general risk of a 75+ year old person in the total population. The relative risk was even lower for NY nursing home patients given the extent of infection in the state and yet NY had only about 15% more nursing home deaths than New Jersey despite having roughly double total deaths.

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In the last ten minutes I have seen news that Pence WILL self isolate, and that he WILL NOT. Reports also that some members of the administration will, and some won't. And that Trump is in a usual rage over how weak it all looks.

The crapshow that is this White House continues.
 
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Septic said:
I'm just trying to figure out where the monetary threshold is for death being an acceptable alternative.

E.g. 1,000 points off the DOW for each 10,000 dead?

Would the threshold be lower if the disease affected the young more disproportionately than the old?
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I wouldn’t use the DOW as a measuring stick but we do put a price tag on life all the time. Actuaries exist for a reason.
 
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volbeast33 said:
What an idiotic policy..... skilled nursing facilities are already lower than capacity than they can hold..... move healthy patients to an all healthy facility while turning a skilled nursing facility into a huge covid unit. I found out the other day that people can test positive for 30 days after testing positive the first time and quarantining for 14 days.
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Do you know who else can test positive? People who have and can spread the virus.
 
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lawgator1 said:
In the last ten minutes I have seen news that Pence WILL self isolate, and that he WILL NOT. Reports also that some members of the administration will, and some won't. And that Trump is in a usual rage over how weak it all looks.

The crapshow that is this White House continues.
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People reporting non confirmed administration communications isn’t the fault of the admin. It’s the fault of reporters not using sources who want to go on the record. Also, you left off the back and forth reporting on what Fuacci is doing.
 
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So much stupid gets posted here. Feel like I need to wash my brain when I finally get through the 20 pages of this thread each day. TDS is just killing some of yall.

There is only 1 fact that in and of itself SCREAMS to open this country back up now.

99.8% of people WITH the virus live. That makes the mortality the same as a somewhat bad flu season. Nothing like flu season in 1968 that killed a million Amercians...which we also never closed down anything over.

You stupid Dems are bitching about the wrong thing. If yall said " Trump never should have shut down at all, like Sweden...he WRECKED our economy !!"

You would have him by the balls. Dead to rights. As usual...yall are not only on the wrong side of the issue...but instead going 100MPH down a dead end road which will put this country in a damn depression if the rational people or citizens dont take charge.

Freaking Morons

Thanks for the kind words NGV. Hope you and Reb are well.

VB33...I didnt know you were stuck in NC like me. I live in Charlotte. Wish it was Knoxville...
 
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allvol123 said:
I think you're just trying to play the emotional bs route here and point fingers at the people that clearly understand there is a level that is acceptable versus this scorched earth economic strategy.

And yes the threshold would be lower if this killed young people more. Young people are valued more. This is a fact and that is how it should be.
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I especially like how you accuse me of being emotional and then subjectively lower the threshold for a different age class because that's how it "should" be.
 
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Ten_Titans said:
Hey you're at least asking the right questions. Now try without the heavily laden sarcasm.

Forget jobs and lively hoods, public policy sacrifices lives for personal convenience.

If keeping everything foggy helps you pretend we aren't forced to put a price tag on lives, then that's fine. Doesn't make it less true.
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I didn't use any sarcasm in that post.
 
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volfanhill said:
I wouldn’t use the DOW as a measuring stick but we do put a price tag on life all the time. Actuaries exist for a reason.
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Chemically, we're worth about $5

Perhaps the DOW would be a poor measuring stick. Of course, Insurance companies can back into the value of human worth. But that's subjective... How much is a day worth to you, a week, a month, a year, ten? Is an American life worth more than a Chinese life? Does supply need to be taken into account? Do we take into account skill sets, education, earning potential etc? Can we measure the priceless human will to live as a commodity against economic impact?
 
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Septic said:
Chemically, we're worth about $5

Perhaps the DOW would be a poor measuring stick. Of course, Insurance companies can back into the value of human worth. But that's subjective... How much is a day worth to you, a week, a month, a year, ten? Is an American life worth more than a Chinese life? Does supply need to be taken into account? Do we take into account skill sets, education, earning potential etc? Can we measure the priceless human will to live as a commodity against economic impact?
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A lot to unpack. But what I would say is that I have seen pshyc docs predict over 75,000 suicides because of the lock down. Kind of makes this close to a wash. That’s not including a the huge spike in domestic Violence we are seeing. What I do know is you can’t expect people to lock themselves up. Well over a million people died during the Spanish flu. People are going to die. This will be a second flu. Keep people who are in danger self quarantine. Let everyone else go out.
 
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