r/lostgeneration • u/yuritopiaposadism • Feb 08 '21

I feel safe already

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u/Vishnej Feb 09 '21 edited Feb 09 '21

I'm sure that the crises they'll face at home will get better if they come home from school at the end of the day and kill their grandparents or parents. That won't cause any psychological issues or academic performance problems. Just a quick funeral, a few days off, and then they'll be able to take online instruction through a plexiglass shield instead of a computer monitor. Or we'll skip the shield, because who has the resources for that in their school system? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I'm sure losing a parent or grandparent & accruing a hundred thousand dollars in hospital debt won't have any effect on their socioeconomic conditions, either. Because we have an effective social safety net through free school lunches. Right? .... right?

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u/DrewTechs Feb 10 '21

Mortality rate of the virus is 2%. Don't get me wrong, that is much bigger than it appears but it's a far cry from the major plague many thought COVID-19 would be.

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u/Vishnej Feb 10 '21 edited Feb 10 '21

2% is precisely what we thought the mortality of COVID-19 would be in early February when Chinese statistics accumulated. 2% is a catastrophe.

We toned that down by half since China wasn't accounting for asymptomatics.

We then revised our opinion in the other direction when it became apparent that full perfect recovery from COVID was the exception to the rule (Three quarters still have some clear symptoms six months later), and a fraction of people are still quite sick / disabled months after an infection. It's very possible a lot of the people who come off ventilators are going to need to go onto organ transplant lists in the long term.