[FRIAM] ill-conceived question

[Frank Wimberly]

Dave

Maybe I lack adequate knowledge of the variety of care centers but the ones
I know charge something like $200,000 admission and $6000 per month.  Maybe
you mean "somewhat poor OR already warehoused..."

Frank

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On Mon, May 4, 2020, 5:31 AM Prof David West <profwest at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> The lesson might be if you are willing to lose the old people who are
> somewhat poor and already warehoused in overcrowded care facilities you
> don't have to lock down.
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 3, 2020, at 11:24 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
>
> Sounds like the lesson is that if you're willing to lose old people you
> don't have to lock down.  As an old person I have my doubts about that
> approach.  In the last three days one of my highschool classmates died of
> covid related causes and a first cousin died of a heart attack with no
> known covid involvement.
>
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> Frank C. Wimberly
> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
> Santa Fe, NM 87505
>
> 505 670-9918
> Santa Fe, NM
>
> On Sun, May 3, 2020, 10:55 AM Merle Lefkoff <merlelefkoff at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Nick, the only mainstream news program I watch is Fareed Zakaria on Sunday
> morning.  Below is part of this morning's report.  Not surprisingly (for
> those of us who have had the privilege recently of spending time in
> Sweden), the answer to how it's working, is just about like the countries
> that are locked down, with one exception.  More deaths (mostly among the
> elderly who primarily live together in retirement).
>
> As world governments employ different policies to fight Covid-19, Sweden’s
> relaxed approach stands out: Eschewing lockdowns, the country has left its
> schools, gyms, cafes, bars and restaurants open throughout the spread of
> the pandemic. Fareed interviews the man behind that strategy, *Anders
> Tegnell*, the Swedish government’s top epidemiologist, about how it’s
> working and whether his country can offer any lessons to the rest of the
> world.
>
> On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 10:34 AM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Colleagues,
>
>
>
> I have asked this question before and nobody has responded (for clear and
> good reasons, no doubt) but I thought I would ask it again.  What exactly
> is this economy we are bent on reviving?  What exactly is the difference in
> human activity between our present state and a revived economy.  We can go
> to bars and concerts and football games?  Is that the economy we are
> reviving?  It seems to me that the difference between a “healty” economy
> and our present status consists possibly in nothing more than a lot of
> people frantically rushing about doing things they don’t really need to
> do?
>
>
>
> You recall that I invoked as a model that experiment in which 24 rats were
> put in a quarter acre enclosure in Baltimore and fed and watered and
> protected to see how the population would develop.  They never got above
> two hundred.  Infant mortality, etc., was appalling.  Carnage.  In the same
> space, a competent lab breeding organization could have kept a population
> of tens of thousands.
>
>
>
> Don’t yell at me.  What fundamental proposition about economics do I not
> understand?
>
>
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> Nicholas Thompson
>
> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
>
> Clark University
>
> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
>
> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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