The price of all this crap

[Vonz90]

There is no model that has it going up exponentially forever. The thing is, taking credit for reactions that work and saying they worked even when the curve followed more or less the path it would have anyway - looks the same at first blush. This argument will last a long time.

[Netpackrat]

Yeah I wish they had drawn that more realistically since that part of it detracts from the point they are trying to make.

[D5CAV]

Maybe Vonz was right and I was wrong: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mod ... pt-reality

About 80% of Americans who have died of Covid-19 are older than 65, and the median age is 80. A review by Stanford medical professor John Ioannidis last month found that individuals under age 65 accounted for 4.8% to 9.3% of all Covid-19 deaths in 10 European countries and 7.8% to 23.9% in 12 U.S. locations.

For most people under the age of 65, the study found, the risk of dying from Covid-19 isn’t much higher than from getting in a car accident driving to work. In California and Florida, the fatality risk for the under-65 crowd is about equal to driving 16 to 17 miles per day. While higher in hot spots like New York (668 miles) and New Jersey (572 miles), the death risk is still lower than the public perceives.

us.gov deficit for 2020 stands at $4 trillion, about 25% of last year's GDP. Also GDP for 2020 will be down about 20% from last year. Pretty high cost.