All to answer the question posed by this article, “How many lives will politicians sacrifice to fight COVID-19?”
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/how-many-lives-will-politicians-sacrifice-name-fighting-covid-19
RULES:
This will be graded and a winner will be declared ON THE LAST DAY THE LAST U.S. STATE LIFTS THE LAST COVID-19-BASED RESTRICTIONS (and other COVID-19 based decrees). No time limit.
Deaths counted will be all fatalities (including both to date and hereafter) resulting from COVID-19 lockdown and related orders, including persons killed by criminals released from custody and/or not taken into custody due to COVID-19, dying from having health care appointments and procedures delayed by COVID-19, dying from suicide and/or drug abuse after having been unemployed by government decree, dying from hunger because of loss of jobs and/or being unable to shop for food in significant amounts due to store purchase restriction edicts and the risk of going back out for more food due to increased crime because police have stopped making arrests due to COVID-19, dying from an impaired immune response due to the continuing anxiety and uncertainty of being unemployed by government decree, dying from increased domestic violence and abuse while on enforced lockdown 24/7, etc., etc.
Grading formula will be set by Computer Bob, if he is so inclined.
You are NOT ALLOWED TO POST THE EXACT SAME SET OF NUMBERS AS A PREVIOUS POSTER.
In the very unlikely event of a tie, the poster closest on the number of cases will be declared the winner. Second tiebreak is closest on number of deaths.
If ComptrBob is willing, he also will verify all results.
With a two-fingered hat tip to ejd_5277.
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Not entirely tongue-in-cheek.
And making the basic point that there is no free lunch. Pushing on policy levers almost always comes with a collateral cost, hence the expression referring to “the law of unintended consequences.”
I query the extent to which we’re in truth just trading one set of fatalities for another.
And whether the guvmint truly has the power to eliminate the mortality inherent in our human existence simply by decree.
Freedom and liberty, however, are an entirely different matter.
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/how-many-lives-will-politicians-sacrifice-name-fighting-covid-19
RULES:
This will be graded and a winner will be declared ON THE LAST DAY THE LAST U.S. STATE LIFTS THE LAST COVID-19-BASED RESTRICTIONS (and other COVID-19 based decrees). No time limit.
Deaths counted will be all fatalities (including both to date and hereafter) resulting from COVID-19 lockdown and related orders, including persons killed by criminals released from custody and/or not taken into custody due to COVID-19, dying from having health care appointments and procedures delayed by COVID-19, dying from suicide and/or drug abuse after having been unemployed by government decree, dying from hunger because of loss of jobs and/or being unable to shop for food in significant amounts due to store purchase restriction edicts and the risk of going back out for more food due to increased crime because police have stopped making arrests due to COVID-19, dying from an impaired immune response due to the continuing anxiety and uncertainty of being unemployed by government decree, dying from increased domestic violence and abuse while on enforced lockdown 24/7, etc., etc.
Grading formula will be set by Computer Bob, if he is so inclined.
You are NOT ALLOWED TO POST THE EXACT SAME SET OF NUMBERS AS A PREVIOUS POSTER.
In the very unlikely event of a tie, the poster closest on the number of cases will be declared the winner. Second tiebreak is closest on number of deaths.
If ComptrBob is willing, he also will verify all results.
With a two-fingered hat tip to ejd_5277.
– – –
Not entirely tongue-in-cheek.
And making the basic point that there is no free lunch. Pushing on policy levers almost always comes with a collateral cost, hence the expression referring to “the law of unintended consequences.”
I query the extent to which we’re in truth just trading one set of fatalities for another.
And whether the guvmint truly has the power to eliminate the mortality inherent in our human existence simply by decree.
Freedom and liberty, however, are an entirely different matter.
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