Editing Collateral damage (section)

==Non-military uses of the phrase==
While not actually invented by the military,<ref>{{cite web |title=The meaning and origin of the expression: Collateral Damage |url=https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/97000.html#:~:text=The%20expression%20'collateral%20damage'%20wasn,existed%20throughout%20the%2020th%20century.&text=The%20expression%20'collateral%20damage'%20is,minor%2C%20might%20be%20so%20described. |access-date=17 February 2021 |website=Phrase Finder UK }}{{unreliable source?|date=April 2021}}</ref> its use in military context has been common. However, the term has since been widely adopted for non-military cases, and in particular, the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. A large number of medical,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Feral-Pierssens |first1=Anne-Laure |last2=Claret |first2=Pierre-Géraud |last3=Chouihed |first3=Tahar |date=August 2020 |title=Collateral damage of the COVID-19 outbreak: expression of concern |journal=European Journal of Emergency Medicine |volume=27 |issue=4 |pages=233–234 |doi=10.1097/MEJ.0000000000000717 |pmc=7202126 |pmid=32345850}}</ref> government sources<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Masroor |first1=S. |year=2020 |title=Collateral damage of COVID-19 pandemic: Delayed medical care |journal=Journal of Cardiac Surgery |volume=35 |issue=6 |pages=1345–1347 |doi=10.1111/jocs.14638 |pmc=7276840 |pmid=32419177}}</ref> and media<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gorvett |first1=Zaria |date=28 May 2020 |title=Why most Covid-19 deaths won't be from the virus |publisher=BBC Future |url=https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200528-why-most-covid-19-deaths-wont-be-from-the-virus}}</ref> use this term widely in relation to deaths caused indirectly as a result of government policy such as lockdowns, and not directly by the virus itself. Significant debate on the pandemic strategy has ensued, with some advocating restrictions such as lockdowns to save lives, where others claim the 'collateral damage' caused by enforced lockdowns, masks and distancing may in fact cause more deaths over a longer term. An example is the [[Great Barrington Declaration]], purportedly signed by 3500 medical and other professionals (and mentioned in UK parliament<ref name="Volume 806: debated on Tuesday 13 October 2020">{{cite web |title=Covid-19: Great Barrington Declaration |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2020-10-13/debates/D95AEF4A-019E-4067-BFCE-9116ECA0B27B/Covid-19GreatBarringtonDeclaration |access-date=17 February 2021 |website=The official report of all Parliamentary debates (Hansard) |publisher=UK Parliament}}</ref> and media<ref>{{cite news |last1=Freeman |first1=James |date=6 October 2020 |title=Why Won't the Media Listen to These Scientists? |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-wont-the-media-listen-to-these-scientists-11602013456 |access-date=17 February 2021}}</ref>) has a FAQ page titled 'Lockdowns and collateral damage',<ref>{{cite web |title=Great Barrington Declaration FAQ |url=https://gbdeclaration.org/frequently-asked-questions/ |access-date=17 February 2021 |website=Great Barrington Declaration |publisher=Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Dr. Sunetra Gupta and Dr. Martin Kulldorff}}</ref> and refers to this phrase several times.

The term has also been borrowed by the [[Computer|computing community]] to refer to the refusal of service to legitimate users when administrators take blanket preventative measures against some individuals who are abusing systems. For example, [[DNSBL|Realtime Blackhole Lists]] used to combat [[email spam]] generally block ranges of [[Internet Protocol]] (IP) addresses rather than individual IPs associated with spam, which can deny legitimate users within those ranges the ability to send email to some domains.

The related term ''collateral mortality'' has been presumed to derive from the term "collateral damage" and has been applied within military and non-military contexts. [[Fishery|Fisheries]] are an example of this, where [[bycatch]] such as dolphins are called collateral mortality; they are species that die in the pursuit of the legal death of fishing targets, such as [[tuna]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chuenpagdee |first1=Ratana |last2=Morgan |first2=Lance E. |last3=Maxwell |first3=Sara M. |last4=Norse |first4=Elliott A. |last5=Pauly |first5=Daniel |date=2003 |title=Shifting gears: assessing collateral impacts of fishing methods in US waters |journal=Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment |volume=1 |issue=10 |pages=517–524 |doi=10.1890/1540-9295(2003)001[0517:SGACIO]2.0.CO;2 |jstor=3868162}}</ref>