California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining
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#2I've been meaning to ask in /r/theydidthemath if the quarantine is actually reducing violent crime, car accidents, pollution, other infectious diseases, STDs, etc. so that we may come out break even or even ahead compared to covid deaths. Just trying to find the silver lining here.
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#3I mean, sure but how much is it losing from loss of revenue? I.e. sales tax?
Bad title and bad article.
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#4That's great let's keep everything shut down and save even more money.
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#5When you say something “saves money” do you think it’s reasonable to require such a statement attest that there is a net savings?
If I go on vacation and set my Nest to eco mode, am I saving money? Sure, certainly I may be saving $5 a day in home utilities cost on my $300/day vacation. But that is not to say that said vacation is actually saving me money.
It would be accurate to say that vacation may be costing me $295 net instead of $300 face value. But just reporting the savings would be misleading.
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#6~$1/resident/day sounds a lot less impressive
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#7I mean, sure but how much is it losing from loss of revenue? I.e. sales tax? Bad title and bad article.
Why would a study on traffic crashes consider sales tax revenue?
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#8I mean, sure but how much is it losing from loss of revenue? I.e. sales tax? Bad title and bad article.
Articles can't be all things. It's a very valid article about a very certain topic, and gives a fascinating insight into how enormous the machine of our "regular" world is.
I personally find it fascinating that for (almost) the first time in living memory we get to have a good long look at what happens when that machine stops. I hope we learn a lot from it.
Only people who lived through rationing in WWII have witnessed a disruption of this size.
Re: California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining
#9I've been meaning to ask in /r/theydidthemath if the quarantine is actually reducing violent crime, car accidents, pollution, other infectious diseases, STDs, etc. so that we may come out break even or even ahead compared to covid deaths. Just trying to find the silver lining here.
That seems unlikely given that in the week of April 6 to 12, Covid 19 has risen to the 2nd leading cause of death in the United States[1].
[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/04/16/coronaviru...
Re: California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining
#10I've been meaning to ask in /r/theydidthemath if the quarantine is actually reducing violent crime, car accidents, pollution, other infectious diseases, STDs, etc. so that we may come out break even or even ahead compared to covid deaths. Just trying to find the silver lining here.
Aside from even the fatalities, the math still is that 50% of LA is presently unemployed. While some articles are somehow gleeful in the face of this calamitous reality, there is no where near a net balance.
The Fed has spent at least $2 trillion dollars on this already. Probably closer to $6 trillion by the time we are done. It is an unimaginably large cost to shut things down relative to any possible benefit.