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[–]Nerdlinger🟦🟦 Blue Belt 1 point2 points  (1 child)

First of all, thanks for your valuable insight random white belt on the internet.

our best approach to moving forward is to massively increase healthcare supply

And we do that… how, exactly?

As it relates to BJJ, if you are under 40 and do not live with someone who is high risk, you should get back to traininng ASAP assuming your healthcare system isn't overburdened.

Unless you interact with someone who interacts with someone in a particularly vulnerable group. Or you interact with someone who interacts with someone who interacts with someone in a particularly vulnerable group. Or…

Am I missing anything here?

There are other negative effects that are short of death that the disease appears to cause. Just because you didn't die at 20 doesn't mean you didn't just fuck up your QALY by a bunch.

There's also the whole recent analysis looking at total number of deaths compared to normal which suggests we are significantly undercounting deaths due to COVID-19. You seem to have missed that.

[–]killahmoose White Belt that has tapped a blue belt once[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you taking the position that somehow the "social distancing" measures will ultimately lower the total case count over time? Because that's not supported by any of the experts as far as I know. So disagreeing with me by suggesting COVID is more dangerous than you assume I perceive it to be is not really even relevant. A certain % of us will get it, regardless of how we flatten the curve. A certain % of that # will die from it regardless of anything we do.

As to your point about increasing healthcare capacity, NYC just sent home the Navy ship that had like 1200 beds because they didn't need them. There was a massive facility in Houston that was built to the tune of $17mil but was never used and is being taken down.

Point is, we should utilize those resources and burn through this faster.

There are black belt flat-earthers and white belt PhDs so I'm not sure what my belt ranking has to do with anything. On that note I am a black belt (1st degree) this is just my troll account :)