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by alexandercrohde·6y ago·view on hn ↗
Social distancing will save at most 1million lives (mostly 60-is 70 year olds, who had 10 years left anyways) in America.

6 months of quarantine in the US would cost 2 millions lifetimes of going outside. Full lifetimes, that is, not 10-year-lifetimes.

This is aside from all the economic damage. The cure is worse than the disease.

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It's not remotely equivalent to compare a year spent dead to a year spent indoors. You need to put a large multiplier on that.