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

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

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@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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