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Comment by heavyset_go

> The longer we're locked down, the longer it's going to take for the economy to recover.

The economy would take a serious hit if suddenly millions of people overwhelm the medical system, people collapse in the streets and bodies pile up in and outside of morgues.

There's a weird false dichotomy I keep encountering where people insinuate that we either quarantine and hurt the economy, or we don't quarantine because of the damage it would do to the economy. The economy is going to take a hit no matter what.

parent heavyset_go 6 years ago

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