SOCIAL ISOLATION RISKS
Coalition for the Terminally Ill Disabled & Elderly
By Heather v. Wolf
The UK and several US States are planning an isolation event.
For over 20 years the scientific community has known that social Isolation carries a 32% mortality risk for human beings. [1,2,3,5,6]
What is the mortality rate of Covid in the absolute worst case scenario?
The WHO FDA and CDC have yet to produce a simple risk analysis nor a risk vs gain comparison on employing social isolation (lockdown) as a strategy to contain a coronavirus vs. other less economically and harmful to human health.
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REFERENCES
1) True Cost of isolation
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brainstorm/201812/new-look-links-between-isolation-and-mortality-risk
2.) Psychology today NIH study
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25910392/
3.) Death rates
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
4.) World Health Organization
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/we-could-be-vastly-overestimating-the-death-rate-for-covid-19-heres-why/
5.) Risk of Isolation
https://phys.org/news/2019-01-social-isolation-vary-rurality-demographics.html
6.) PNAS
https://www.pnas.org/content/110/15/5797
7.) ADA Law Addresses Social Isolation
https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/social-isolation.php
8.) How we measure impacts of Isolation
https://www.asaging.org/web-seminars/understanding-social-isolation-series-part-1-what-it-why-it-matters-and-how-its
9.) This NIH Study shows asymptomatic carriers are not contagious.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32513410/