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CPH-Flyer
In the end we all die one way or another, so why not just abolish any healthcare, as it can only postpone the inevitable? Spending money to delay what will happens anyway is a terrible waste. Putting your argument to the extreme.
Yes 650,000 dies every year, at the moment Covid-19 has killed more than 10,000 in less than a month. The average age of the people passing away in Italy from covid-19 or associated causes is indeed 78, so there is going to be a big overlap with the dieing of natural causes group. But who is to say that a 78 year old person could not have another 10 to 15 good years with the family if the system protects them. Many heart transplants don't have a much longer outlook than that.
Italy had 3,325 traffic fatalities in 2018, that is nothing compared to 650,000 so why keep investing in road safety, car safety, technologies to reduce that? Is all of Volvo's investment in car safety just a waste, as in the bigger picture, not many people died anyway.
Should the 737MAX just keep flying? What's 346 lives compared to the overall number of deaths in Indonesia and Ethiopia in one year.
I get your point, the shut down is not without risk and consequences, but in Europe starvation should really not be part of these hardships. There is no reason people should be starving in Italy. However that they do is bad public management and bad human behaviour. Let's focus on that, and make sure that we don't fail people on these points as well.
Well said.
I watched the video about Southern Italy and the problem is that the society down there is largely cash economy. Yes, it's the government's fault because they shouldn't let it happens - I don't know if it's because the of high income tax like here in Sweden (there's a cash economy here in Sweden too). It seems like the Italian government is sending food and money to the South.