0.001% of one million = 10 people.
0.001% of one billion = 10,000 people.
0.001% of eight billion = 80,000 people.

We are already way above that point and the pandemic is far from over.

Every fifth of the (known) closed cases ended in death worldwide, only 4 of 5 survived.

In the US even more than every third of the (known) closed cases ended in death worldwide, not even 2 of 3 survived.

"US has achieved a significant lower mortality rate than almost all other countries" (Donald Trump, today in the press briefing)

I am glad you're someone who can follow all the rules all the time. More power to you. But to pretend that someone doesn't give two fucks about others lives because he is an infectious disease specialist who coughed on his hands..... aren't you taking it too far? 

That's like saying most of us here don't care about human lives because we continue to do thins that worsens climate change like buying products from china instead relying on home-made products, and playing video games instead greener entertainment like playing sports, eating anything that isn't remotely healthy promoting encouraging obesity, driving cars instead of whatever, the examples are too many. 

I am starting to cringe at how many of us here pretend we care that much about all human lives. No one fucking cares to that extent about preventable deaths, and it's despicable to pretend otherwise just to point fingers at people we hate. 

Belgium does not do any post mortem analysis. Everyone who dies is automatically counted as covid death if s/he was reported to have shown some generic symptom usually associated with covid. So they probably "overaccount" somewhat.

In Austria, a research group reports that all of a group of divers, recovered from covid (all having experienced mild symptons only), show irreversible damage to the lungs (they are all ex-divers now). What that means is anyone's guess. So I'm still not convinced that the Swedish way is the clever way. I'm sure they have essentially killed people who could have been saved by harsher measures that are in place in most of the Europen countries.

This is not an US thread, this is a World related thread.

But if you think that people will lose jobs for just a few months, then you really are clueless.These millions of people losing their jobs around the world?They will be unemployed for well over a year.God knows how many will be homeless or worse, die of hunger.When those people die, hope that you will own up to it.People really have to study economy more.

And the article doesn't disagree? In fact, it reaffirms what you mentioned over and over. The question is, a year from now, who had the proper approach to the same problem?

If a year from now, the number of death per capita for Sweden is way higher than other countries, we can say Sweden made the wrong call. But if the number ends up about the same, then yeah, Sweden made the correct call...

... Especially that the deaths are in Sweden are NOT happening because the healthcare system is overwhelmed. 

You wanna play the number game?Fine, let's do it:

According to WHO, 5.6 million kids under age five have died in 2016, nearly 15 k every day.

According to WHO, number estimates places malaria cases in around 216 million in 2016 alone, with a mortality rate of 28%.

According to WHO, 56% of deaths in Africa are due to communicable nutrinional deaths.In another words, deaths that could be prevented.

According to WHO, 1 million pregnant woman had active syphilis infection in 2016 and had at risk birth due to that.

According to WHO, around 800k people die from suicide every year around the world(about 1 death every 40 seconds)

According to WHO, around 37,9 million people around the world have AIDS as of 2018.God knows how many died because of it.

According to this article(https://www.mercycorps.org/blog/quick-facts-global-hunger), around 820 million people suffer of hunger, and around 9 MILLION PEOPLE die of hunger or hunger related problems EACH YEAR.There is probably a better source for this information, but it shouldn't be much further from the truth.

And the list goes on.Here is the link if you wanna see more heart crushing numbers:

https://www.who.int/data/gho

Now you ask me: is 150k deaths because of one single disease extremely low?One that once the cure is found, almost no one will die of it?As cold hearted as it is to say this, yes.Yes it is.Having less extreme measures being taken in response to this virus helps prevents the other deaths that happens(cancer, hunger, malaria, suicide, you name it).And the economy of a country directly reflects how high or low those numbers are.There is more to the world than the corona virus people.Stop with this tunnel vision.

And when the amount of people dead from the economy is still less than those of the virus you'll still be here chirping your nonsense.

I will come here and admit I was wrong, like any normal human being.Will you, or is this just some politically charged topic for you to bash people about, like so many stupid people are treating this topic?

I would easily admit I'm wrong if the deaths from hunger and suicides due to a closed economy thanks to the virus outpaced the death of the actual virus. That doesn't seem to be the case though. 

Oh, I didn't know that every single country had the money to do so.Guess those estimates of the world economy going down 5% or 6% is nothing to be worried about.

My bad, I forgot that every country in the world is a developed one, that has trillions of dollars in the reserve, just for emergencies like this one.I'M SO sorry.And here I was thinking that said governments are just looking out for it's people so that they don't spend all of it's money on a disease that will be cured by the end of the year and has no money to help it's people in other aspects, like social security, health care, it's economic health and so on.I really forgot about that.I'm sorry.