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Another 4.4 million jobs sacrificed to Flat Curvers. Over the last five weeks, here's how the two biggest problems facing America stack up.
COVID-19 deaths: 1.5 out of 10,000 people
COVID-19 new cases: 2 out of 1,000 people
Unemployment: 8 out of 100 people
![[thread] 1 of 10Another 4.4 million jobs sacrificed to Flat Curvers. Over the last five weeks, here's how the two biggest problems facing America stack up.COVID-19 deaths: 1.5 out of 10,000 peopleCOVID-19 new cases: 2 out of 1,000 peopleUnemployment: 8 out of 100 people](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWSn6bPWsAEEnKG.jpg "[thread] 1 of 10Another 4.4 million jobs sacrificed to Flat Curvers. Over the last five weeks, here's how the two biggest problems facing America stack up.COVID-19 deaths: 1.5 out of 10,000 peopleCOVID-19 new cases: 2 out of 1,000 peopleUnemployment: 8 out of 100 people")
Another 4.4 million jobs sacrificed to Flat Curvers. Over the last five weeks, here's how the two biggest problems facing America stack up.
COVID-19 deaths: 1.5 out of 10,000 people
COVID-19 new cases: 2 out of 1,000 people
Unemployment: 8 out of 100 people
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Here's the same data with a log-scaled y-axis, for those who are okay with wrapping their heads around each line being a power of 10 difference.
Here's the same data with a log-scaled y-axis, for those who are okay with wrapping their heads around each line being a power of 10 difference.
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There are still orders of magnitude difference between reported active COVID-19 cases and reported deaths and soaring unemployment claims.
If unemployment's mortality is a tiny fraction of COVID-19's, it would eclipse COVID-19 by leaps and bounds.
There are still orders of magnitude difference between reported active COVID-19 cases and reported deaths and soaring unemployment claims.
If unemployment's mortality is a tiny fraction of COVID-19's, it would eclipse COVID-19 by leaps and bounds.
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Every percentage point of increase in long-term unemployment increases the death toll from suicides. Source: https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1177/003232927600600408
Every percentage point of increase in long-term unemployment increases the death toll from suicides. Source: https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1177/003232927600600408
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Unemployment increases mortality risk by 63%.
Source: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.01.005
Unemployment increases mortality risk by 63%.
Source: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.01.005
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For someone under the age of 64, the risk of death from COVID-19 is approximately equivalent to the risk of death involved in commuting by car for a distance between 9 and 400 miles. (Citation, full available here: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.05.20054361v1.full.pdf+html)
For someone under the age of 64, the risk of death from COVID-19 is approximately equivalent to the risk of death involved in commuting by car for a distance between 9 and 400 miles. (Citation, full available here: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.05.20054361v1.full.pdf+html)
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The economic aspects of this threaten to kill hundreds of thousands of children and plunge hundreds of millions more into 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
The economic aspects of this threaten to kill hundreds of thousands of children and plunge hundreds of millions more into 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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Hunger caused by the economic disruption will possibly kill more people than the virus itself would have. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/world/africa/coronavirus-hunger-crisis.html
Hunger caused by the economic disruption will possibly kill more people than the virus itself would have. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/world/africa/coronavirus-hunger-crisis.html
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Poor policy on ethanol is now amplified by the economic repercussions of our choices surrounding COVID-19 are leading to CO2 shortages, threatening our drinking water supply. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/20/carbon-dioxide-shortage-us-food-water-coronavirus
Poor policy on ethanol is now amplified by the economic repercussions of our choices surrounding COVID-19 are leading to CO2 shortages, threatening our drinking water supply. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/20/carbon-dioxide-shortage-us-food-water-coronavirus
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Flat Curvers are destroying the economy and putting millions of lives around the world in peril because of their ideology. That ideology is shaping up to be the most potentially deadly ideology of the modern era, surpassing even Communism. We have to stop the madness.
Flat Curvers are destroying the economy and putting millions of lives around the world in peril because of their ideology. That ideology is shaping up to be the most potentially deadly ideology of the modern era, surpassing even Communism. We have to stop the madness.
