• jet@hackertalks.com
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    1 year ago

    As sad and sobering as this is, it does mean their very strict quarantine was effective in delaying the deaths of 2M people for 2-3 years.

    That’s 75,000 lives* worth of time saved. (80 years per life estimate)

    • cyd@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      They probably saved many more lives than that. They largely bypassed the Delta variant, which I think was the most murderous Covid wave globally.