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Mike Coyne's avatar

Commenter Jon Schulz eloquently misses the point like so many pandemic panic porn purveyors (including those with endowed chairs). While there are many personal and social reasons why humans seek to elevate the severity of a crisis, the past few months have demonstrated how pernicious such psychopathology can be--killing more with a cure fueled by academic hubris and political fecklessness.

It's time for those who have staked their reputations on worst case speculation to admit that it hasn't come to pass. All the modeling and in vitro experimentation must yield to real world, observable clinical outcomes. Very few people outside of the clearly defined at risk group are getting sick from this and virtually none are dying. If Mr. Schultz, you're now going to tell us that serious latent morbidity awaits us because this virus is different from Cov-1, we're going to ask you politely to throw your panic party elsewhere. We have lives to live.

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smarty1's avatar

Death rate is only one negative aspect. Let's discuss cost of hospitalizations

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