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Do you have any evidence that social isolation will cause more deaths than an unchecked pandemic? That makes no sense.



Indeed, CDC's numbers for March indicate that social isolation is reducing non-ncovid-19 deaths by twice as much as sars-cov-2 is adding them. That's short term, so not what GP was talking about, but very significant numbers nonetheless.


They’re talking about the conservative/trumpy talking points of the economy being more important than grandparents.




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