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Florida, Texas, and Sweden seem to be doing fine enough.
by neuland 6y ago
Florida, Texas, and Sweden seem to be doing fine enough.
- bearjaws 6y agoTell that to the ICU nurses and doctors in Florida who have to code several people a day due to Covid...
- neuland 6y agoTell that to the family that lost their job and is now homeless. Tell that to the people who've lost love ones to suicide, overdose, alcoholism. (see I can be snarky and unhelpful, too) The broader point is that it's not clear that lockdowns are beneficial or necessary. They have real costs. Nobody is talking about how we weigh those costs and benefits. And despite the lockdowns, California still has a swamped medical system. To move the conversation forward: people will never give up their sacred cows. The lockdowns were never about COVID, they're about control and rewarding political allies. Texas tried to ban abortion. California tried to ban religion. And nobody cares if the lockdowns work or not.
- henrikschroder 6y agoHeart disease and cancer combined kill four times as many people every year, than what covid-19 has done this year. About 10% of all the people who died in the US this year will have died from covid-19. Why are those 10% of deaths so much more terrible, so unimaginably horrible, that we're focusing exclusively on those, and completely ignoring the remaining 90% of deaths?
- t-writescode 6y agoBecause it's an infectious disease spread through droplets in the air; because it's abnormal and therefore new and scary; and because it's more deadly than our other regular disease, the seasonal flu.
- uoaei 6y agoYou can't catch heart disease and cancer by standing for 10 minutes in the same room as someone who is afflicted by either of those.
- uoaei 6y agoAre you being serious? I am seriously baffled that you think that is true.