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downplaying the pandemic as "a couple dead boomers" is retarded. look at fucking italy, dude.

my mum is 59 and has respiratory issues
my grandma is 77 and is lifelong a heavy smoker
my sister is 25 and has a genetic heart valve issue

fuck the global economy

>>18012990
>why the fuck is the first worse, again?
Because if you're not careful, "a few" turns into 10% of the entire population.

That's a permanent loss of decades worth of human capital, which is way more than a 25-50% GDP hit for a single quarter.

>>18012990
This is like finding a few black widows in your house and choosing to deal with it by burning your entire house down. The official infected numbers represent a 10th, if not a 100th of the actual amount of infected people. Meanwhile the total deaths are more accurate since a cause of death has to be determined. Essentially the actual mortality rate of Corona is way lower than what is being reported by the media. This is a meme to cover the elite's asses; we'll blame the virus for the economy collapsing instead of the people that spent the last 20-years turning it into the unsustainable mess it's been in since the 90s.

>>18012990
The people in power are all boomers.

>>18013045
>MUH EXTENDED FAMILY

Just have children basedlet

>>18013027
Thats literally whats happening there though

lol why don't boomers who hold most political offices and hold the most stock just fuckin let themselves die??
LMAO

>>18012990
Look at the ages of the people in power and come back to this thread again.

>>18012990
Easy. They have all the wealth in the world and they get to call all the shots.

>>18013073
>mom
>sister
>extended family

>>18013058
>Essentially the actual mortality rate of Corona is way lower than what is being reported by the media.
Source?

>>18013027
a couple dead boomers dead in italy
how is he wrong? that's literally it
>>18013045
all of them will die once your unemployed ass cant keep hospitals working
>>18013053
the worst projections say 50 million wordlwide, not in any way, shape or form 10% of the population
if anything we need mass mobilization to build more hospitals and increase production
that would save more people than destroying society and creating mass unemployment and social collapse
medicine doesnt grow on trees

>>18013079
wrong.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-italian-doctors-warn-covid-19-can-make-young-people-seriously-ill-11961000

>>18013115
0.2% is very few italians, brainlet
anedoctal evidence doesn't change statistics

>>18012990
we could've just quarantined the infected and exposed people but faggots like you pretended it was just a flu

so this is your fault. We're not shutting down the economy for boomers, we're doing it for you.

>>18013181
It's easier to fight than the flu you retard.
The flu affects all ages and without vaccines kills even children.
A total lockdown would be necessary for a serious influenza pandemic, not for the coronavirus.
Lockdowns are the lowest IQ answer to it and were, are and will always be unjustified

>>18013113
80% of people infected have mild of moderate symptoms. There are also a large amount of cases that are asymptomatic. Meanwhile you have states getting a few hundred tests per day, testing centers literally sending people home an hour after opening due to too many people showing up, and people being denied testing unless they are very ill or very vulnerable. On top of that, most people will simply nurse themselves back to health at home, or have such mild symptoms they'll discount it as allergies or something else since the media is making this out to be airborn AIDS. Essentially the vast majority of people who get infected will never step foot in a doctors office or hospital, and even if they do they'll be told to go home, get plenty of rest, drink fluids, and stay away from people "just in case."

>>18013131
it's only 0.2% because they instituted very draconian measures, the same ones you are advocating against...

in other words, please down a bottle of sleeping pills.

>>18013114
High end infection estimate of 80% and roughly 10-20% of the population needing hospital care? Yeah, the maxed-out running wild scenario is way more than 50m, Tedros.

And I do have to remind you that ventilators don't grow on trees, nor the staff to use them. We didn't get the ball rolling in January so now it's too late - quarantines are the only way we can avoid the "running wild" scenario.