Another problem is that most of the world is still too busy trying (and failing) to control the spread of infection. They don't have much attention to spare for people who aren't deemed infectious anymore.
The focus by many has been deaths. Mortality rate can be spun to make covid seem not so bad.
If we start talking about the percentage of people whose lives are significantly affected, we create a much bigger percentage. If you’re trying to paint the opposite picture, it’s not in your interest to acknowledge or increase awareness of that percentage.
There are multiple countries that were hit very hard in the first wave, and then managed to contain the virus and accelerate their economies after; France, Spain and Italy are all great examples. IIUC, France now has 3.6% unemployment. They had strict lockdowns, followed by mask wearing, social distancing, and contact tracing. The same tactics are working for NYC in the US.
We do ourselves a great disservice to act as if virus containment is bad because it destroys economies. No, the virus destroys economies, and containment allows us to continue once mitigated. That’s what the data clearly shows.
You can't compare the entire US with a country. The EU have had roughly as many deaths as the US per capita. That's the correct comparison. Some countries like some states did well other didn't some areas in states did well others didn't.
To claim that the tactics are working for NYC is absurd. NYC have had the highest amount of dead, we are still mostly on lockdown here and very few things are open.
I have had two melanomas and so I get checked 4-6 times a year. So far I have been tested in january and not since.
I am not sure what data you are talking about and I am pretty sure this aint over yet.
Furthermore I would challenge you to find single country who would do lockdowns again if this happened.
They locked down because they were unprepared (it's their job to be prepared) not because it was the right thing to do.
I don't believe this is true, and probably hasn't been for a while. Talking points tend to outlive changing conditions.
Europe has had 270-310 per million, depending on whether you include Russia, while the US is up to 433. And the gap continues to widen because every day twice the number of people are dying in the US compared to all of Europe.
Conversely whatever is being done clearly is working for NYC and has been long enough for the death rate to follow the new case rate down. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to say that because of all the people who died, the efforts that stopped people dying didn't work. There were ten deaths yesterday in Manhattan+Brooklyn+Bronx+Staten Island+Queens. Miami-Dade county had almost triple. But that underestimates what's coming, because new cases were over 3200 (in a day) compared to about 300 in NYC. People have steadfastly refused to believe that new cases become new deaths over time, but you can see the numbers going up.
Europe (exl Russia) is around 176000
https://unherd.com/thepost/oxford-epidemiologists-suppressio...
On the other hand, here is a study showing two countries that have made great strides in containing the virus, after massive waves and deaths, and did so with a harsh lockdown https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972...
You mean like wearing masks? Because that's apparently a "political opinion" right now
The economy is going down the shitter no matter what. Might as well make it temporary instead of permanent (which is exactly what's gonna happen if "1%" of the entire world dies, and many more get severely injured due to COVID complications).