Irrationality wrote:
Doesn't he say first of all that it's wrong to classify the death of somebody already dying of another illness as a 'coronavirus death'?
He also points out that over 2,000 elderly Germans die every day.
One paper yesterday in the UK claimed that deaths might only be 7,000. It's looking more likely that it will be 20,000 or more, but likely not many tens of thousands.
8,000 people die every year in the UK from seasonal flu.
I wonder how many of the 160,000 or more people who have died in the UK from the flu in the last two decades would have been saved if we had introduced something simple like introducing fines (or banning from public transport) individuals who sneeze or cough without covering their faces on crowded trains or buses?
Are people with serious health problems (ie. dying) even normally counted when an ordinary seasonal flu finishes them off?
I'm not of the position that this is all an overreaction necessarily, but it seems pretty obvious there is a degree of irrationality involved. Of course we can't have old people dying in hospital corridors because there's no more intensive care beds for them. But the fact is in the long run, more elderly people are going to have their lives shortened by quarantine measures most likely than be killed by the virus. And that's before we consider the long term effects of an economic depression or collapse.
Sources? I hardly think that is a fact, let alone, even a generally accepted position.
Seriously, what does it tell you on a very basic level when our hospitals can't come close to keeping up with the numbers of critically ill and dying, make shift morgues are being set up, etc. More fake news?
But let's start with how stay at home orders are going to lead to elderly dying, please.