I'm more than a little unhappy with the false dichotomy being presented and manipulated by politicians in the media over the last two days.
Old people being told that you don't love your grandchildren enough if you're not willing to get them back to work now so that you can have a one in seven chance of dying.
Young people being told that surely they will not suffer economic pain for three or four weeks to avoid playing Russian roulette with Grandma.
All of this completely misses the point at the extreme economic cost of a healthcare system overrun in the United States. Yang is absolutely right. At the compromise you kill 1 million people by viruses, mostly old. You kill another million from system overrun. That second million is way younger. But this is a money talk...
You spend a bunch of money killing all those people. That's a stupid use of money.
What we do after the slow down is of major debate. That is the major point where I'm seeing different models argue. But every single model says that national level suppression strategy is the only way to shift the exponential doubling curve to the point that the system can actually respond to it. It blows my mind that we are acting like slowing down is
only costing money.
But anyways who is going to pay for the health care of the slow but surely dying 2 million people? That's incredibly expensive not to mention everybody that doesn't die.