Exactly. And then have people b**** and complain about it. Nothing but bad can come from answering that question.
Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)
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The order is set to expire next week. I don’t need to know exactly when. But I’d like to know her thinking. Does she plan a slow reopening? Is she going to try and go by region? Is she going to encourage employees to still telework I’d possible?
I think we all expected this to eventually be more of a reality question versus a theoretical question. When opening back up what are the acceptable amount of deaths. I think the politics of this is going to get extremely bad over the next few weeks and that’s bad for everyone.
There'll be deaths after the vaccine is created. But the question will always remain, how many deaths are considered acceptable? Sooner than later, it's going to be asked and a real answer is going to have to be provided.
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We already know what the answer is, the answer is the deaths don't matter and the economics always wins at the end of the day. That's true in many places outside of just a pandemic.
Some will fight it, and they have valid arguments, but this is always the reality of it. Plenty of people don't care if they get sick or get others sick as long as they can get their hair cut and go to bars. Same applies to business, getting people sick doesn't matter as long as the dollars keep coming in (which may be affected by carrying a reputation of getting people sick...but still).
Exactly. We can't count on our Governor for information concerning when we might be able to go to a restaurant again, even though she ordered the restaurant shut down...
IMO the unacceptable deaths are ones that occur because the sick can't receive adequate treatment due to overburdening the healthcare system. That's what this has always been about. The tricky part is knowing when and how much you can open up and avoid that circumstance.
It's a real balance though, right? What happens if the economy crashes? It would likely be substantially worse than 2008. The number of deaths could end up far surpassing just the virus deaths. The health system could crash. We're already seeing stories about rural hospitals having to lay people off. It's a terribly fine balance and a difficult choice to make.
Yeah that’d be the “glass is half empty “ response. There would also be a “glass is half full” line of thinking.
You should actually take some level of comfort in that. It's looking like substantially more people have this stuff and aren't even having slight symptoms. That's a good thing.
Of course.
but 40,000 people have died of this in a month or 5 weeks. That’s a lot of people with fairly substantial shutdowns.
what is your acceptable number of deaths in a month?
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