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Flat Curvers: "Stay at home! Shut down the economy unless you want people to die!"
World Food Program: "There is also a real danger that more people could potentially die from the economic impact of COVID-19 than from the virus itself.” https://www.france24.com/en/20200422-un-says-food-shortages-due-to-covid-19-pandemic-could-lead-to-humanitarian-catastrophe
Flat Curvers: "Stay at home! Shut down the economy unless you want people to die!"
World Food Program: "There is also a real danger that more people could potentially die from the economic impact of COVID-19 than from the virus itself.” https://www.france24.com/en/20200422-un-says-food-shortages-due-to-covid-19-pandemic-could-lead-to-humanitarian-catastrophe
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Flat Curvers: *hold you emotionally hostage by saying you'll kill their grandmother if you walk outside*
United Nations: "Hundreds of thousands of children could die from the economic downturn and hundreds of millions more will be in poverty." https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-children-un/u-n-warns-economic-downturn-could-kill-hundreds-of-thousands-of-children-in-2020-idUSKBN21Y2X7?__twitter_impression=true
Flat Curvers: *hold you emotionally hostage by saying you'll kill their grandmother if you walk outside*
United Nations: "Hundreds of thousands of children could die from the economic downturn and hundreds of millions more will be in poverty." https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-children-un/u-n-warns-economic-downturn-could-kill-hundreds-of-thousands-of-children-in-2020-idUSKBN21Y2X7?__twitter_impression=true
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Flat Curvers: "You want to sacrifice the elderly so your family can eat. Stop worshipping the economy."
Reality: Unemployment increases mortality risk by 63%.
Source: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.01.005
Flat Curvers: "You want to sacrifice the elderly so your family can eat. Stop worshipping the economy."
Reality: Unemployment increases mortality risk by 63%.
Source: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.01.005
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Flat Curvers: "60,000 people might die of COVID-19 even if we keep everyone locked down. Isn't that enough for you?!"
Reality: Each percentage increase in long-term unemployment might cost us 60,000 lives. We may hit 30% unemployment
Source: https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1177/003232927600600408
Flat Curvers: "60,000 people might die of COVID-19 even if we keep everyone locked down. Isn't that enough for you?!"
Reality: Each percentage increase in long-term unemployment might cost us 60,000 lives. We may hit 30% unemployment
Source: https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1177/003232927600600408
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Look where emotional terrorism got us. Flat Curvers will have racked up a pretty high body count by the time we're done with all of this. In fact, they are on track to outpace Communism as the single most deadly ideology of the modern era for their global toll. Kudos.
Look where emotional terrorism got us. Flat Curvers will have racked up a pretty high body count by the time we're done with all of this. In fact, they are on track to outpace Communism as the single most deadly ideology of the modern era for their global toll. Kudos.
