Re: <nettime> coronavirus questions

[Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 02:19:33AM -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote:

> economy is due to the overreaction of the society. Somehow the ruling
> class calculated that it is worthwhile to decimate the economy to delay
> deaths by few weeks or months (idiotic statements about the virus getting
> tired notwithstanding.)

You're not just delaying deaths. You're reducing the overall mortality due to
triaging if you're preventing oversubscription of the intensive care
capacity from happening.

The elites almost everywhere dropped the ball on this, so they failed to
prevent the higher mortality and thus resulting disruption to the economy.

On the other hand, selective culling of people >65 and those younger with
pre-existing medical conditions is going cause very significant savings for
the retirement funds, so they might have factored that in.


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