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They don't have to fear for themselves to be fearful. Yes, senior citizens are at higher risk. That does not mean the young have to stop living. Just that you
by rscho 6y ago
They don't have to fear for themselves to be fearful.
Yes, senior citizens are at higher risk. That does not mean the young have to stop living. Just that you have the opportunity to be nice to senior citizens.
It could also be that those epidemiologists just know in practice what it's like to not be lucky with COVID. See you in a month with your new and shiny tracheostomy.
Am epidemiologist, FWIW.
- nickthemagicman 6y agoThe senior citizens need to be on quarantine while you're right the young should be free. 80% of the population is under 55 years old. This is not a societal problem.
- eddiegoode 6y agoWhat about the 10's of millions of people in poverty in America. And the millions more that are entering poverty due to Covid shutting down their places of work. It's not a fair tradeoff in my opionion.
- rscho 6y agoThis unfair trade-off only exists because people, and especially americans, are totally unable to respect simple and rational rules to avoid transmission. In addition to that there's also the "mask issue" which is plain ridiculous. People are getting poorer because they are stupid.
- subpixel 6y agoAt risk for what? We literally don’t know what damage is inflicted to a body that recovers from COVID-19, or how that may affect near and long term health. Too many people think you can get this disease and get over it like chickenpox. We just don’t know if that’s remotely true.
- rscho 6y ago> At risk for what? Well, I'm quite confident that death is a possible answer to that question. Also quite likely: a year of horrible suffering in rehab with good-intentioned people sticking needles into you regularly before dying from mundane bacterial pneumonia.