Chit Chat
If we take a mid number of just doing social distancing of 250,000 deaths (I dispute this number is too high but lets assume Ferguson was right for a moment).
Excess deaths is already over 50,000 even so lets, for sake of the debate assume lockdown saved 200,000 lives.
At a cost of £300,000,000,000 that is £1,500,000 per life saved.
More people are likely to die with the virus and from all cancers and heart disease due to not being seen due to the lockdown further reducing the number of lives saved. In all likelihood lockdown will end up costing more lives than it saves.
The costs of the policy are likely to increase as unemployment rises as more and more businesses go bankrupt.
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How much should saving a life be worth iyo?
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In so many cases "saving lives" is inaccurate anyway. Its merely delaying deaths by a year or two. You could justify the costs a lot more if this was affecting the younger members of society.
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You have included brexit costs in your estimate.
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Had we locked down 2 weeks earlier costs would be reduced by earlier reopening
and far swifter recovery ( see Greece) We would have saved another 20,000 lives too. If we reopen too quickly now we will strangle the recovery before It begins THIS IS ABOUT THE 30TH SILLY PROPAGANDA THREAD YOU HAVE STARTED YOU HAVE ZERO EMPATHY FOR BRITISH PEOPLE |
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Greeks are starting their holidays
Under 200 deaths They locked down hard and early Their government sourced ppe early They traced known cases. Our money seems badly spent, in your opinion, because our clownish corrupt government still managed to slaughter 60k of its citizens whilst swanning off on birthday treats for family |
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8.4 million jobs saved, or potentially saved by public funded furlough scheme
as recommended by trade unions. Think of the anguish these 8.4 million and their dependents would have suffered. |
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There was never going to be a surge of deaths over 200,000 though, it was always going to be the number we ended up with but only we'd have got there quicker and it would have looked far more darker, 40,000 would have popped it inside 2 weeks and then the number would have plummeted.
All it did this lockdown was stretch out the event of getting to 40,000 deaths. Nature would have intervened and stopped any mass extinction ffs, the weak would have perished but nature doesn't care about that, you can believe it does but nature doesn't give a fack about what we believe. |
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I no the right wing are getting their knickers in a twist but its getting hard to keep up,inside trade on a zillion threads moaning about a witch hunt for cummings,yet here,s a thread complaining about a policy LOCKDOWN, that cummings in his rose garden statement said he was the one pushing for it,,
do you want him to go or stay,is he an indiot or a genius ,is this policy the work of a genius or an idiot when you get yourself straightened out let us no you,ll have to get yourself one of them banners, cummings must stay on one side cummings must go on the other a bit lioke 2 letter,s doris  |
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not costing the economy much at all ... money will just get recycled ... overseas nations it is costing them too ...if it was just us then that'd be different .
so the real cost is around £7.50 a life probably. it's a bit like saying if house prices fall house owners will be worse off lol |
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inflation has actually fallen ....petrol lowest price since petrol was invented
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feel sorry for those thrown out of work ,but they will all get jobs ...it's not like they're idlers who don't want to work
even the homeless will be housed ...by order |
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if that wasn't all good news enough think of how the environment has benefited ...plus the roads will all be shiny new
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and that lack of polution has turned our climate into a mediterranean one since February
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Would you let them starve insider traitor
A price worth paying. Eh? |
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Inside trader... most of them do feck all at the best of times ...they're just doing a bit less work
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The good weather has been one of them super bonuses
A normal UK winter and spring and we would have been over stretched Imagine driving to Barnard Castle on icy roads with bad eyesight Yikes |
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so the genius makes the political decision in 75 years and you think he,s an idiot,but you support him
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You don't arf spout some shiote insider traitor
Are you related to Carol Malone per chance? |
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my teacher neighbour isn't on furlough but a paid home worker .... good job she has landed too by the looks of it ....barbeques ,sunbathing and gardening most afternoons
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My teacher mate has spent time doing reports, home schooling by video for
30 kids, and one day a week in school looking after key workers kids. They are doing 60 hour weeks which is indeed a holiday compared to usual 80 hours |
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biggest decision he,ll ever make,as you say he,s bankrupted the country,but you ,ll support .but think he,s an idiot for doing it,so why would you have any confidence in him getting anything else right,
like was pointed out a million times during the GE,its alright mobilising the lemmings to go after the establishment,but when your the establishment, who do the lemmings go for then |
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What have I written here you disagree with?
Read my replies to see. The ones you have selectively ignored will point you in right direction |
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Don't worry, luckily Brexit saved us joining in on a €750bn debt bonanza
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Brexit and racism again
The joy |
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thread title should be cost of lockdown per death caused imo
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I hope your right sont,and the right will have to take the blame for wrecking the country,as ive posted a thousand times since the GE,LEFT WING POLICIES ON STERIODS AND IF IT ALL GOES BELLY UP THE RIGHT GET THE BLAME,LEFTIES UTOPIA
, and a fooook up brexit to come ,russia report covid enquiry wheres the sunny uplands for the right |
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Still got Windrush and Grenfell to get past too
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Just a rough figure. £100k? £500k?
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Love the idea too of just putting everyone on benefits. Despite his fantastical idea that the govt could correctly means test the millions involved in the time allowed, he misses the whole point of the furlough scheme.
It's not an act of socialist generosity. It's a necessary action to stop people spreading the virus but also ensure they don't suddenly default on their bills and bring the whole country crashing to a halt. |
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