neat observation about lockdowns
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RT @QiaochuYuan
thanks to @Aryeh___ for reminding me of this, i think the way he put it was something like "you are living in a situation that if it were forced upon you would violate the geneva conventions"
twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status

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wonder how much total loss of well-being from lockdowns would weigh against number of deaths. what's the utilitarian break even point here

wonder where we're at in terms of that

these are evil, evil thoughts and somebody's gotta think 'em

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RT @dyokomizo
@miftah___ra These estimates say in Jakarta there are from 23% to 59% of the deaths expected when herd immunity is reached.

One could use those to estimate the costs of lockdowns.
twitter.com/dyokomizo/status/1

@amir I tried to Fermi estimate around that here twitter.com/ecree429/status/13
Conclusion I came to was that lockdowns are a terrible idea. Granted, I already thought that before doing the calculation, but still...

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