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Six thousand deaths in a day is plausible for January, based on this week's infections plus Christmas gatherings. Uncharted territory of loss. @ASlavitt/1339760233569128449
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Mentally, it's hard to make the difference between 3,000 and 6,000 feel as great as the difference between 3,000 and zero. But it is. As different from now as now is from no pandemic at all.
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What are we willing to do to avoid such loss? To let that many people per day survive until we can distribute vaccines.
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We're now past the point where flattening thr curve is delaying losses. Every avoided infection is an infection that doesn't have to happen later at all.
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Doubling down on prevention will objectively save lives.
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Money can be borrowed or materialized, but lives cannot be replaced. Pay people to stay home, freeze rents and loans, cancel debts, save lives.