‘The Fearpers have crossed the line into harassment.’
think they’re bad...? our own neighbors are going to be calling the cops on us if we so much as lay out in our back yards to get some vitamin D...
This article is preliminary, but the authors are economists at Wash U St. Louis. The conclusion is that by staying at home we have already avoided thousands of deaths, probably from fewer car accidents and lower incidence of regular flu.
I have been very critical of other flubro arguments but I think this one is sensible. We are over-reacting, instead of just stopping a pandemic we are making ourselves much safer than we were 2 weeks ago.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2y2gvh2q7axdzz2/COVID-19_UnintendedConsequences.pdf?dl=0