Yep, we've already heard from a REAL Doctor and a member here telling us that their hospital is missing diagnosing patients with life threatening but possibly curable issues such as cancers and heart issues, kidney disease, because they are afraid to come into the hospital now or they are being misled by the media and think they will be turned away if they do come into the ER.
This is direct evidence that the lockdown itself will kill Americans too and possibly many more than the virus.
I think they spent a lot of time thinking about what could happen if we don't shut things down, how many people would die. I'm not in the camp of let's just start everything back up and roll the dice, if they die, they die. But I do think that it's past time to calculate the cost of the shutdown in dollars and in lives. It's better to know both sides of any issue, and we really don't see many people putting their effort into models that show the other side of it. We just hear about models that try to predict the side we've heard from throughout this. What we call it when we only consider one side of an emergent threat? "Knee Jerk"
Again, I'm not saying we should just say **** it, the economy is more important than the lives that would be lost. We should put a lot more thought into how we can get some parts of the economy moving again, at least. I was glad to get a car wash today.