I wonder how many of you are aware that the last time the numbers were calculated a 1% increase in unemployment caused 40,000 deaths in this country?
Here is a link: https://nypost.com/2020/04/20/explaining-the-link-between-unemployment-deaths-amid-coronavirus/
Cut it in half: figure 20,000 deaths per percentage point. Figure a 10% increase in one year unemployment. That is 200,000 deaths.
Michigan has a population of about 10 million, or 1/34th the overall US population. Proportionately, then, it seems reasonable to say that 5,882 people will die BECAUSE OF UNEMPLOYMENT. In the next YEAR. It will go on the next year, if high unemployment continues.
This is over and above the simple despair and anxiety of not being able to pay your bills. This creates stress. This is transferred to kids, who grow up unhappy. It causes divorces, which are bad for many reasons. The host of ills should not need to be listed.
Right now you have 50 people dying a day and 53,000 infected. That is one daily death per 10,000 infected.
A bit over 98,000 Michigan citizens died last year of some cause or other. That works out to about 8,100 a month. You currently have about 5,060 deaths TOTAL from COVID-19, over the past two months, and those rates are declining.
NO ONE WHO SAYS THEY ARE COMPASSIONATE OR THAT THEY CARE ABOUT HUMAN LIFE CAN SUPPORT THIS FORCED HUMILIATION AND FORCED JOBLESSNESS A DAY LONGER.