15k deaths a week is 780,000 deaths a year. The Global death rate over the last 70 years has hovered around 50-55 million a year [0], which puts this particular death rate around a 1.5% of global deaths. Frankly, at 7.7 Billion people on this planet and a birth rate that is over double the annual death rate, 15k additional deaths a week is the proverbial pocket change.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/births-and-deaths

"can/can't" language when the intent is "should/shouldn't" language.

I often get feedback from my mental health professionals that things cast in CAN or CANNOT mask SHOULD and almost always go to WANT if you really do believe it, and otherwise beg a question: can you alter it? is it an externality or not?

The consequences of clogging up hospitals is a rise in other mortality. The consequences of clogging up vaccine production lines is increase in other problems because of lack of vaccines for other diseases. The increase in health costs for long-term conditions.. the increase in production losses, in supply chain breakdowns, in inflation caused by demand/supply mismatch.

Economists are very depressing. What they do is look at this, and say simultaneously "this will take 18+ months to work through and you can't alter the trajectory much" and "there is a huge opportunity here for some change, if you're willing to take it, but the history here is you aren't willing to take it"

We can, and will "live" with this deathtoll, and we have done in the past, and we probably will do for the forseeable future. What we want, and what we should do, are quite disconnected from what will happen in this space.

Anyone who thinks mortality stats will drive us to alter existing structural behaviour longterm, is an optimist. Anyone who calls for it, with "cannot" is an activist or advocate.

I like optimists, and like advocates. Lets be clearer thats what they are.

There are about 25k who die from hunger each day and more than 1/9 are hungry... it seems categorically worse that we let this happen

https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/losing-25000-hunger-....

> Since the vaccination campaign began on Dec. 14, 2020, just over 50 per cent of hospitalizations and deaths were among the unvaccinated.

And just under 50 per cent of hospitalizations and deaths were among the vaccinated.

Having lost a family member to covid, I can say with a straight face that yes we can live with that. Because we must. There is no alternative.

We have learned that shutting the world down, staying indoors, giving up livelihoods, masking and subscribing to Vax-as-a-service has not worked.

Whether it’s 15k or 150k deaths a week, the world will keep spinning.

Frankly, yes, we can, even if you choose to believe this nonsense statistic.

Approximately 2 people per million per week dying "from covid" (which actually means dying of any cause within 28 days of a positive test) is actually an entirely sustainable result.

Even if you pretended that all of those people actually died from covid, you're talking about 1 in 600 people dying of covid at some point in their lives (assuming 15k per week forever). Once you adjust for the fact that everybody going into a hospital gets a test, and then, if it is positive and they die [of whatever brought them to the hospital to begin with], they count as a "covid death", and you really just have a negligible risk.