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Old 15th Jan 2021, 10:35
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Originally Posted by Paragraph377
Nobody is looking at the health costs of increased mental health issues
No increase in suicide rate so far. Probably attributable to jobkeeper.

people with cancers etc going undiagnosed,
No real change in Medicare and PBS payouts from 19 to 20, after a short decrease in March/April, suggesting the same amount of medical services were being accessed in 2020 as 2019.

not to mention the immeasurable financial hit.
USA and Europe took a bigger financial hit, due to the pandemic currently raging through those places. All in all Australia's lock it out policy has done the best job.

The majority of people, over 98%, who get it survive!!!
A CFR of 2% (disregarding health system pressures, and long term complications) is actually really bad.

If you are a fat diabetic American or an oil loving cigarette smoking European
Australia has a higher obesity rate than Belgium, France, Italy, Spain and a higher or comparable smoking rate than the UK, Sweden, Chile, Ireland which have all been hammered by the pandemic. Which suggests similar infection and death rates would present here if we "just learnt to live with it".
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