OK so we know you are a teacher and a researcher. Are you paid with taxpayer money? Any income effects from COVID-19? Mark and I are small business owners. My revenue, and to some extent his, are being seriously hurt by this government overreach. We both have rent and employees and overhead to pay. Once that goes, and I close my small business, then I have food and utilities and my wife and son and my life savings. At some point IDGAF about ICU overflow and ventilators and virus curves and the elderly dying of a weirdo bat virus. That point is approaching rapidly.
Even Taleb's enemies, such as Sam Harris and S Pinker, do not think he's an imbecile. That puts you in a very small group of people.
If you disagree with my point and you are a statistician, tell us what you think is happening with the mortality rate and stop insulting people.
If you have projections about the number of deaths in the US, put your dick out on the table. You seem more interested in arguing and giving stats lectures than stating your case.
Any number of countries, not just S Korea, are doing fine without shutting down public businesses.
What do you do for a living that you can get away with this kind of crazy nonsense?
The plan is for the government to let individuals get back to work and make their own decisions about their own health and well-being. People are going to do what's in their own best interest anyway, and it's better for everyone in society if the government just gets out of the way. Otherwise things will not be pretty.
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Read up on guys like Hayek and Friedman. The reason Italy et al are in their position is because of their nationalized healthcare industry. The US's free market system is hampered by Medicare/Medicaid/the VA, but it's going to handle this better than any other health care system in the world.
Perhaps a new direction for discourse. India had identified CoVid19 Cases in February yet currently has 376 per JHU.
How India is dealing with the Coronavirus outbreak — Quartz India
The Johns Hopkins website says 376 cases in India, 7 dead. There are 1.3 billion people in India. If you assume that the case number is low by a factor of 10000, the infection rate is still 0.289%. And how many people starve if they don't have any food because Lazygun wants the economy shut down so we don't all die of COVID19? Starving people care about this.
It is in the 90s in Mumbai all week, lows in the 80s. It may be useful to remember that the southern half of the US will be there very soon. If there are millions of dead people in China and India, I am worried about the disease. If not, I am worried about the government.