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There is no response that results in no deaths. That Lonely Joe Parker twitter thread that @William. linked above is worth a read, specifically this:
"This was an impossible task for BJ: There is no such thing as a 'perfect' strategy out of lockdown.
Unknown:
- We still don't know if acquired immunity is effective, or lasting;
- We don't really know community prevalence;
- We don't have ANY idea how long this will go on.. 3/
We do however have a fairly good idea of the costs - and I'm talking in genuine, statistically-attributable, earlier-than-necessary, DEATHS here - of economic contraction. They are not trivial. They run to thousands a week, too. 4/"
- We still don't know if acquired immunity is effective, or lasting;
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Source for the thousands a week? Or is that world-wide, not just UK? The BBC wrote an article about avoidable deaths due to people not going to hospital/other reasons, their source said it was too early to call an exact figure.
Sure there is no "perfect" solution, but mass test/trace is recommended and the UK is not there yet.
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FT reporting that Sweden's economy looking like it will contract at the same rate as the rest of the EU at 8-10%-so it may be that lockdown-or lack thereof-won't avoid these economic casualties, sadly.
https://amp.ft.com/content/93105160-dcb4-4721-9e58-a7b262cd4b6e?__twitter_impression=true
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It was an impossible task after we let it spread so much in the early phase.
JWestland
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You’d prefer 33,000 deaths to none?