Not Based

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This is 100% false (why the tweet was deleted), but beyond that because children get ill enough to need an ICU at vastly, vastly lower rates than adults, there are never all that many pediatric ICU beds in existence anywhere.

This is the base rate fallacy in action.

It enrages me how none of these fuckers will answer exactly how long people are supposed to stay indoors, exactly how long society is supposed to be on hold. Two years? Ten years? Fifty? Of course they cannot give an answer because this is all just performance.

I know liberals are opposed to doing a utility calculation like this, as most of them are deontological thinkers, but how many people should we attempt to “save” by torturing and harming millions? Lockdown is extremely mentally damaging. Even masking has harms (though not the ones most conservatives cite). I wish I could get some sort of answer out of these people about how long lockdowns are supposed to last, how long we are all supposed to cower inside, how long people are supposed to be penned inside their prison countries unable to visit loved ones “for their own good.”

They will never answer this because the scolding and the holier-than-thou finger-wagging is the fucking point.