THE LOCKDOWN WILL KILL MORE PEOPLE THAN COVID

by Alan Schoonmaker

Overview

MOST OF THE UNNECESSARY DEATHS WILL BE "INVISIBLE."
COVID May Be Much Less Dangerous Than Most People Believe.
LOCKED DOWN AND UNEMPLOYED, UNINSURED PEOPLE DON'T SEE DOCTORS.
LOCKED DOWN AND UNEMPLOYED, UNHAPPY PEOPLE EAT UNHEALTHY FOODS.
LOCKED DOWN AND UNEMPLOYED, UNHAPPY PEOPLE ABUSE ALCOHOL AND DRUGS.
LOCKED DOWN UNEMPLOYED, UNHAPPY PEOPLE KILL EACH OTHER.
LOCKED DOWN AND UNEMPLOYED, UNHAPPY PEOPLE COMMIT SUICIDE.
STRESS DAMAGES OUR IMMUNE SYSTEM.
BANKRUPT BUSINESS OWNERS WILL DIE FASTER THAN UNEMPLOYED WORKERS.
IT'S NOT ABOUT LIFE VS MONEY
THERE WILL BE MORE TOTAL DEATHS THAN THE "EXPERTS" PREDICT
WE NATURALLY FOCUS ON THE SHORT TERM.
SOME VERY CRUDE NUMBERS
HOW LONG SHOULD THE LOCKDOWN LAST?
WHY WILL THE LOCKDOWN CONTINUE TOO LONG?

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163011063
Publisher:	Alan Schoonmaker, Ph.D.
Publication date:	05/18/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	152 KB

About the Author

My Ph.D. is from The University of California, Berkeley. The U.S. News and World Report rated it as the best publicly-funded university and fourth best overall in the entire world.
I served on the faculties of UCLA and Carnegie-Mellon and was a research fellow at the world’s oldest Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium. I’ve spoken at Yale, The University of Chicago, and Harvard Law School.
I’ve published about 250 articles and 16 books. My books have been translated into 8 foreign languages.
I’ve consulted in over 20 countries for the world’s largest multi-nationals. Their 2019 revenues exceeded 20 trillion dollars, about 10% of America’s GDP.
Because I’m not an MD, some people who want the lockdown to continue will insist that my opinion is irrelevant. Let’s relate that criticism to history.
Clemenceau, the Prime Minister of France during World War I, once said, “War is too important to be left to the generals.” He meant that generals concentrate on military issues and ignore the destructive social consequences of their decisions.
That principle certainly applies to the lockdown and depression. Decisions which severely damage the world economy are too important to be left to the doctors.
They focus on their narrow specialty: treating sick people. Most of them rarely think about economic issues. I was delighted to learn that Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a professor at Stanford Medical School. He has an MD and a Ph.D. in economics, and his remarks quoted earlier had the proper balance between medical and economic issues.
When I was a young professor at Carnegie-Mellon, my colleague, Herbert Simon, was laying the foundation for what is now called “Behavioral Economics.” He later received The Nobel Prize in Economics.
Perhaps his most important contribution was to challenge the belief that people are rational decision-makers who examine all their alternatives and select the best one. If he were alive today, he would probably regard many recent decisions as being extremely short-sighted and destructive.
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