Re: <nettime> coronavirus questions

[Ryan Griffis <ryan.griffis@gmail.com>]

> 
> 3-4% of each of these groups will die, so it will likely be a uniting 
> experience, a dismal failure of the identity politics, and therefore a 
> serious problem for powers that be.
> 
> Unrelated, it's funny how coronavirus has the same effect at biological 
> and social levels: the damage to the body is mostly due to the 
> overreaction of the immune system, and the damage to the 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.)


If you think that social distancing policy is merely designed to â??delay deaths by few weeks or monthsâ?? you have never visited an emergency room. If you had, youâ??d understand that creating temporal distance between the numbers of people requiring immediate health care changes (dramatically) the number of people who will ultimately die (whether itâ??s viral infections or gun-shot wounds). An overwhelmed system creates a higher mortality rate. Iâ??m no health expert, but this seems like public health 101.
Take care everyone.
Ryan

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