See the total deaths and age adjusted death rate for Influenza and Pneumonia Argentina.
www.worldlifeexpectancy.com
In Argentina in 2017 there were 29.797 deaths related to pnuemonia and influenza or 80 people a day approximately . What happened to these deaths now in 2020? Many doctors in the USA and Europe are talking out that all deaths that have had contact with covid 19 are now classified as covid 19 deaths even though the patient has a history of terrible health problems .
To shut down an economy for a long time based on fear will devastate us all . Argentina is feeling these effects with its currency devaluating 40% in weeks . Prices of foods have gone up to sky high levels . Most small and medium size business will shut down for good . Unemployment will reach 30 percent of the population . How is this worth it ?
Life is associated with death . In Argentina over 800 people die a day from all causes . We cannot just shut down our economy based on risks . What we can do is be intelligent and implement policies that minimise risk but protect our economy . Elderly people are 10 times more vulnerable to this disease and they should be the ones that should be limited in their movements for a while . Younger people must be allowed to work and build up herd inmunity . This is how the world has operated for millions of years . Yes there will be deaths from coronavirus but there will be much more deaths from a destroyed economy that includes malnutrition on a scale never seen in Argentina before . Not being mentioned also suicide which is a leading cause of death in the world has doubled in the last 4 weeks in many societies . People are losing hope all around the world as they see their businesses collapse and without no silver lining on the horizon .
I believe that if this lockdown goes until June 2020 most restaurants will close and never reopen , as well as hundreds of thousands of other vital small businesses that make Argentina a vibrant familiar society . This section of society the small and medium size business class will be permanately unemployable . How will they survive and will the state provide for them ?