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We went through a full court press as a society to try to stop COVID and still wound up with 2.8M dead that we know of, including half a million in the US alone
by roughly 6y ago
We went through a full court press as a society to try to stop COVID and still wound up with 2.8M dead that we know of, including half a million in the US alone. I'm not sure how you look at that number in the midst of the efforts to stop it and come up with the idea that the virus was overblown.
- uoaei 6y ago> We went through a full court press as a society to try to stop COVID That's a very generous assessment considering there were so many deniers and so many people who refused to isolate themselves.
- rgifford 6y agoDiabetes kills 1.4M a year. Do we reorganize society to make people walk more? No, it kills slower and more spread out. I agree with the reaction. We needed to flatten the curve to protect hospitals and hospital workers. That is the only justifiable reason for the closures in my mind.
- uoaei 6y agoAre you implying that diabetes is an extremely contagious, transmissible disease that only requires one infected person and poor air circulation to spread?
- rgifford 6y agoDiabetes is highly preventable and we choose not to address it societally. We may not like what that says about us, but it says something. Especially when you compare our societal response to it with our societal response to COVID.