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Originally Posted by Hom3r
I just found out that mum will never walk again as the coronavirus attacked her nervous system.
She had it before I took her in, but she had no symptons. I live at home and don't know it I've had it either?
Tomorrow she moves to a nursing home, this is possibly a pemanent placing.
The home is 30 minutes away.
We may be able to visit and take clothing for her. This should help her start to eat as she is very low at not seeing any one.
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Sorry Homer.
How long ago did you take her in?
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
We will not avoid deaths by the measures being taken. We can only delay them.
If you think the economy isn't important in determining when the restrictions are relaxed, I don't think the majority would agree with you.
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Originally Posted by Hugh
That doesn’t answer my question, which was asking for evidence that the deaths weren’t being avoided, only delayed...
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Leaving aside the fact that all we're ever doing is delaying deaths.....
The Government's approach now is to avoid deaths by controlling the rate of infection so that hospital capacity isn't overwhelmed. It's not true to say the current measures will only delay (for now) people's deaths. If we didn't have these measures then hospital capacity was projected to have been overrun resulting in a higher number of deaths.
What OLD BOY might be confusing that with is that long term one of the assumptions is that we cannot stop the virus and therefore there will be a given number of deaths and
those deaths are being delayed and not avoided.
I.E The very fact we're delaying deaths itself lowers the overall death count.
Another thing is that by delaying the deaths we buy time for more effective treatments to be found which could save lives.
We might also - although I am skeptical of this - be able to open up against with aggressive contact tracing, social distancing and other measures to slow the infection rate so drastically that we reach a vaccine before the virus has infected everyone it theoretically could.