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willywonka saysIt's a new virus, and folks with shit immune systems in bug incubators are going to get picked off. It might be worse than the flu, in that case, as they lack pre-existing immunity and can't develop an adequate immune response before they die, if at all. There will be occasional fatalities in the healthy population, just as with the flu, although COVID-19 is not affecting young kids as much as the flu.What do the numbers look like with the assisted living and nursing home fatalities removed?
Like nothing, but no one wants to admit that. Death is bad, but if you wanna take the positive out of this, the average monthly SS check is ~$1,500 and can go up to $3k. 100k dead would be $150M a month save in SS minimum. That's not including medical which is much higher than the SS cost. Every nursing home death is likely saving $3-4k/mo per person dead. And remember, these are people that weren't producing anything.
I know my position is harsh on this and those with sensitive feels will dislike it. But we need to open up, and if we burn off $3-4k/mo in obligations per death, you can't really argue that's a bad thing.
Sweden's curve remains exponentially up without sign of peaking.You are merely describing a rate, and not the outcome.
Seems like what was needed was to leave the economy open, but protect the elderly.
everyone wants the economy to re-open the number is likely to be higher unless governments implement very strict isolation of vulnerable people - for example in the UK those over 70 or with certain high risk conditions have to lock in and get food & medicine delivered.
Elderly care workers need hazmat suits if the outdoors is teeming with virus.
Prof. Elizabeth Bartholet is leading the charge against those who actively resist public schools and she believes that the generation currently being homeschooled is an eventual, if not active, breeding ground for racism, sexism, and isolationism.
“Many homeschool precisely because they want to isolate their children from ideas and values central to public education and to our democracy. Many promote racial segregation and female subservience. Many question science. Many are determined to keep their children from exposure to views that might enable autonomous choice about their future lives,” she claims.
“Homeschooling, she says, not only violates children’s right to a ‘meaningful education’ and their right to be protected from potential child abuse, but may keep them from contributing positively to a democratic society,” the article’s author reports.
“[S]urveys of homeschoolers show that a majority of such families (by some estimates, up to 90 percent) are driven by conservative Christian beliefs, and seek to remove their children from mainstream culture,” Harvard Magazine warns. “Bartholet notes that some of these parents are ‘extreme religious ideologues’ who question science and promote female subservience and white supremacy.”
TEOTWAWKI saysHow?
People who care for them or live with them bringing it probably.
The elderlyare more likely to be sick in the first place and by actuarial averages more likely to die than young people. It's always been that way.
https://babylonbee.com/news/more-homeschoolers-arriving-at-college-woefully-unprepared-for-gender-studies
homeschooling is a threat to children’s rightsIt is a threat to a black child's right to a worthless "education" steeped in victimhood and pathology.
ThreeBays saysThe elderlyare more likely to be sick in the first place and by actuarial averages more likely to die than young people. It's always been that way.
Old people are stupidly stubborn as hell
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/swedish-coronavirus-no-lockdown-model-proves-lethal-by-hans-bergstrom-2020-04
Doesn't seem like such a good idea so far...
Now that COVID-19 is running rampant through nursing homes and other communities, the Swedish government has had to backpedal. Others who may be tempted by the “Swedish model” should understand that a defining feature of it is a higher death toll.
We do not do this with the flu, which killed 80,000 primarily elderly Americans in 2017.
Many of whom were vaccinated.... This is a manufactured crisis at this point and I'm still trying to figure out the reason why.
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