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This is dangerously false (we don't yet know what the long-term effects of COVID-19 will be). How do I flag this for moderator removal?

by cowpig 7y ago

djsumdog 7y ago
Did you read the article? It's my blog post. I wrote it. Instead of just saying it's dangerously false, explain why. Let's have a discussion instead if you jumping the flag button. There are already cases in Europe where fruit is rotting because no one is available to pick it. If the country shuts down like Gates suggest, there are lots of secondary effects that can injure people. It's just like COVID-19, in someone's immune system, overreacting and killing more cells when it doesn't need to. That should not be acceptable in our society.
- cowpig 7y ago
  There's no evidence to suggest that people who recover from COVID-19 have "only dead blood cells" that can "just be replaced". There is a bunch of evidence that it can cause scarring in peoples' lungs, and it's unclear what other long-term effects there will be.
  - djsumdog 7y ago
    That wasn't what I was implying at all!! In your immune system, it can kill off bad cells and that's acceptable. But when it comes to human beings, we can't let some people die to save the rest. That's unacceptable. That's the analogy I was trying to draw. Human beings are not cogs in a machines. We are not cells who some master brain can dictate things to. We are complex, self-aware beings. You turn off a machine and you can turn it back on again later. Your body kills off a ton of infected cells and that's fine because they grow back and those cells aren't special. Your turn off large parts of this complex machine we've constructed to support 6~7 billion human beings on this planet, and a lot of people are going to die. Even if you can keep people from dying, there is going to be a lot of civil unrest, protests, because there are limits of what we can take as human beings. The point of the post is that there are two diseases. The first is the virus that's killing of tens of thousands of people. Then the second disease will hit; the economic impact of all we are doing to stop the disease, which could leave millions without necessities.

This is dangerously false (we don't yet know what the long-term effects of COVID-19 will be). How do I flag this for moderator removal?

by cowpig 7y ago

This is dangerously false (we don't yet know what the long-term effects of COVID-19 will be). How do I flag this for moderator removal?

djsumdog 7y ago

Did you read the article? It's my blog post. I wrote it. Instead of just saying it's dangerously false, explain why. Let's have a discussion instead if you jumping the flag button. There are already cases in Europe where fruit is rotting because no one is available to pick it. If the country shuts down like Gates suggest, there are lots of secondary effects that can injure people. It's just like COVID-19, in someone's immune system, overreacting and killing more cells when it doesn't need to. That should not be acceptable in our society.

cowpig 7y ago
There's no evidence to suggest that people who recover from COVID-19 have "only dead blood cells" that can "just be replaced". There is a bunch of evidence that it can cause scarring in peoples' lungs, and it's unclear what other long-term effects there will be.
- djsumdog 7y ago
  That wasn't what I was implying at all!! In your immune system, it can kill off bad cells and that's acceptable. But when it comes to human beings, we can't let some people die to save the rest. That's unacceptable. That's the analogy I was trying to draw. Human beings are not cogs in a machines. We are not cells who some master brain can dictate things to. We are complex, self-aware beings. You turn off a machine and you can turn it back on again later. Your body kills off a ton of infected cells and that's fine because they grow back and those cells aren't special. Your turn off large parts of this complex machine we've constructed to support 6~7 billion human beings on this planet, and a lot of people are going to die. Even if you can keep people from dying, there is going to be a lot of civil unrest, protests, because there are limits of what we can take as human beings. The point of the post is that there are two diseases. The first is the virus that's killing of tens of thousands of people. Then the second disease will hit; the economic impact of all we are doing to stop the disease, which could leave millions without necessities.