A little over a month ago, I wrote about how COIVD-19 was two diseases, the one caused by the virus and the other caused by society eating itself in an attempt

A little over a month ago, I wrote about how COIVD-19 was two diseases, the one caused by the virus and the other caused by society eating itself in an attempt to fight the virus: https://battlepenguin.com/philosophy/covid-19-is-two-diseases/ https://battlepenguin.com/philosophy/covid-19-is-two-disease... I did a follow up called This Is Not a time of Honor, but it doesn't cover a lot of things that are starting to come out right now: the sheer number of people who had serious medical conditions who avoided hospitals or were told simply to not come in. There are several anecdotal stories of people who have died from heart attacks and other diseases, and those need to be measured because that should have never fucking happened. So much of what has been done to stop this disease has had determinable effects. We try to say Lives > Economy, but the economy isn't just some abstract concept; it is what allows so many of us to live. Our leaders locked everyone down without providing a god damn thing to help people (at least in the US, at least in the UK and other country, they got payroll ... PPP in the US is a god damn joke). I also fear that the push for contract tracing will basically erode all our privacy, or what's left of it anyway.