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| Latin America’s COVID-19 cases exceed 10 million |
| 2020-10-13 |
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Vernal, your argument hinges on the assumption that recovered become immune. As I discussed before, this don't seems to be be the case for covid 19 (or any other coronavirus). Moreover, there seems to be long term debilitating effects to covid 19 - including in people who had a relatively easy bout of disease. So can Latin America adjust to a substantial fraction of the population being disabled at any given time? To all activities having a chance to cause being disabled or dead (much higher where then in US)? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-10-13 14:19 |
| #2 Are you really delusional enough to think Latin America is wealthy enough weather a lockdown, whether or not they wanted to perform one? Lockdowns are expensive. Quarantines are expensive. Latin America is largely extremely poor to moderately poor. Tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of death likely is "cheaper" to society than a lockdown in the situations of most third-world nations. |
| Posted by: Vernal Hatrick 2020-10-13 13:22 |
| #1 Well, as long as they preserve their economies by avoiding lockdowns ... |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-10-13 08:53 |