Slate CC12: The High Cost of Heart Disease and Cancer

Sweden is what you get when you ask experts to run the show. If we do not have a cure and we don’t have a vaccine that doesn’t seem to be forthcoming, you really have three options. You can let corona rip through society, you can have moderate social distancing (which is what Sweden has done), and you can have strict lockdowns which are what many states have done.”

Nobody is suggesting that you should just let corona rip through society but likewise, you need to understand that a strict lockdown is simply not sustainable.

The High Cost of Heart Disease and Cancer

Malaria, AIDS, and tuberculosis get all the attention in the developing world. But chronic diseases kill more people.

By Bjørn Lomborg Posted Monday, April 30, 2012.

Author and Copenhagen Consensus Center President Bjorn Lomborg has raised concerns about tuberculosis and its effect on lower-class people. “It’s actually the biggest infectious disease killer,” he told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “Most people in the rich world haven’t heard about it – because we’ve fixed this for rich people. “We need to fix this for poor people as well.”